The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) added more cameras to its New York City buses to catch drivers who break bus-related laws. The MTA announced that three more bus routes were equipped with Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE), as of Dec. 8 – in addition to the 51 routes currently enforced. More than 1,400 buses are now ACE equipped, covering 560 miles of routes daily.
There will be a warning period on the new bus routes – B68, M57 and B60 – in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Vehicles improperly using busways and bus lanes, blocking bus stops, or illegally double parked will receive warning notices in the mail for an initial period of 60 days, followed by summonses thereafter. Summonses start at $50 and escalate to $250 for repeat violators.
The windshield-mounted cameras, which are powered by artificial intelligence, have reportedly led to wrongly ticketed drivers. The MTA has reportedly mistakenly sent tickets to over 3,800 vehicles for blocking bus lanes – 3,000 of those tickets should have been a warning, and 800 had no infractions at all.
For more details, including the list of ACE bus routes, visit mta.info/ace.
Sources: Slash Gear, MTA
