My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Washington (Seattle)
During my morning commute I used the carpool lane of the Interstate 5 on-ramp as a single occupant. Typically at that hour the metered ramp is not active (as traffic is very light), and there was a slow-moving truck in the single occupancy lane, so I decided to pass it using the carpool lane of the ramp. Turns out that despite light traffic conditions, the ramp was metered on this particular morning, and a police officer saw me, and I received a $136 ticket.
I requested discovery which contains the officer's statement, copied here:
I don't expect to find any way out of the ticket. I would like to request some advice on changing the ticket to a lesser one.On Monday, June 26, 2017 I was performing assigned traffic duties in King County. I am currently assigned to District 2, Detachment 1, driving a fully marked patrol vehicle and wearing a department issued uniform. I observed this vehicle traveling in a designated ramp requiring two or more passengers while only traveling with a single occupant in the vehicle. The driver could not provide a legal justification for why they were traveling in the HOV lane.
I attended a traffic court hearing a few years ago, and my memory may be a bit fuzzy, but at the very beginning of the hearing, the judge called up all of the traffic ticket lawyers, and within a minute or two, they changed about a dozen moving violations to parking tickets.
Now this being my first ticket, and being a very minor one, I am hoping that I can use the same strategy used by those lawyers to request a modification to the ticket. Can anybody explain if that's possible and how one requests it?

