HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLES, FREE BRIDGE TOLL

HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLES

• The Bay Area Toll Authority grants reduced-rate passage on the above bridges for vehicles classified by it as high-occupancy vehicles that use FasTrak® to pay the toll.
• The reduced rate is 50 percent of the regular toll: $2.50.
• The reduced rate applies only as follows: between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. Monday through Friday and between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on all bridges.
• The following vehicles are classified as high-occupancy vehicles:
  
  1. Two-axle vehicles (without trailer(s)) carrying three or more persons;
  2. Two-axle vehicles (without trailer(s)) carrying two or more persons crossing the Dumbarton Bridge or the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge; and
  3. Two-axle vehicles (without trailers(s)) designed by the manufacturer to be occupied by no more than two persons, carrying two persons.
  4. Motorcycles.
• Tolls that vary by time of day are determined by the time clock or time keeping device at the toll collection point.
• To qualify, high-occupancy vehicles are required to use designated carpool lanes.
• If designated staffed lanes are provided for use by high-occupancy vehicles on any bridge, the high-occupancy vehicles must make cash payment of the reduced-rate passage toll in those lanes.
• So long as it is permitted by law, hybrid vehicles displaying an eligible sticker issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles may use the carpool lanes on the bridges during designated carpool hours at the reduced rate for carpools.