Q I’m toying with the idea of buying a plug-in hybrid. Getting carpool stickers would be a significant incentive to do so. Will I be able to get a green sticker?

Dennis La

Berkeley

A Maybe. The current program has reached its 85,000 limit, but legislation is once again working its way through Sacramento to increase that number and extend the expiration date beyond Jan. 1, 2019.

Assembly Bill 1964 by Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would remove the 2019 sunset date and eliminate the 85,000 cap on green stickers. Green stickers issued prior to Jan. 1, 2018, would expire on Jan. 1, 2019. Stickers issued between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2018, would be valid until Jan. 1, 2022.

White carpool stickers for electric vehicles and those running on compressed natural gas would remain uncapped.

Gov. Jerry Brown proposes removing the cap on the number of green stickers but retaining the 2019 expiration date and extending the white sticker program until 2025. The increased availability of EVs with a longer driving range has prompted demand for white stickers to more than double, from roughly 41,000 at the end of 2013 to 99,697 on April 1.

Q I have noticed that nearly every cement abutment along Interstate 580 and I-680 has a notice about the shoulder being closed, and the leading edge of the abutment has what appears to be a cement form over that edge. How extensive is this activity, and what led up to it?

Warren White

Livermore

A For safety reasons, Caltrans is upgrading sections throughout the Bay Area where flexible beam guardrails connect to a concrete bridge rail.

Q The other night I took my husband to catch a flight at 11:30 p.m. at the SFO international departure area. When I got there, I thought I had made a mistake and gone to arrivals instead. The entrance lane was backed up and cars were parked three deep across the entire departure area. To get a parking spot (on the second lane from the curb) to unload our luggage and the passenger flying out took a good seven minutes.

I asked one guy who was getting in a car next to me (in the third lane from the curb) why he was getting picked up in departures. He shrugged and said, “Uber.” I asked another lady and she said her boyfriend told her to wait there. Of course, there were no police patrolling the departure lanes because people usually just drop someone off and move on.

Any idea what is happening or what we can do to rectify this blatant defiance of the system?

Derryl Molina

A San Francisco International Airport allows companies such as Uber and Lyft to do both pickups and drop-offs on the upper level curbside areas. They are not, however, allowed to loiter curbside waiting for a fare. And to reduce congestion, SFO has also created a staging area for those drivers on airport grounds but away from the terminals.

Doug-the-SFO-Guy says Uber and Lyft “now represent a significant amount of daily activity, and we’re working hard to accommodate this new form of ground transportation while balancing other traffic demands.”

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