(a) It shall be the state-wide goal: (1) To increase passenger vehicle occupancy levels and the use of public transportation, (2) to increase average occupancy levels to one and two-tenths persons per car by the year 2000, and (3) to increase the use of public transportation and ride sharing so that at least ten per cent of all trips between home and places of employment occur in vehicles occupied by more than one person by the year 2000.
(b) On or before January 1, 1991, the Department of Transportation shall report to the General Assembly on a strategy necessary to increase passenger vehicle occupancy levels to one and one-quarter persons per car by the year 2010.
(P.A. 90-219, S. 17; P.A. 13-277, S. 68; 13-299, S. 10; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 110.)
History: P.A. 13-277 restored former Subsec. (b) re monitoring of progress by Connecticut Public Transportation Commission and restored former designation of Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-299 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), deleted former Subsec. (b) re monitoring of progress by Connecticut Public Transportation Commission and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2013; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 deleted former Subsec. (b) re monitoring of progress by Connecticut Public Transportation Commission and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) re report to General Assembly as Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2016.