{"id":168632337,"date":"2010-05-06T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=168632337"},"modified":"2010-05-06T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:18:57","slug":"mta-tests-cameras-to-deter-illegal-use-of-bus-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=168632337","title":{"rendered":"MTA Tests Cameras to Deter Illegal Use of Bus Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Schuerman<br \/>\nNEW YORK, NY April 27, 2010 \u2014New York City Transit will try out mobile video cameras in a move that may eventually lead to ticketing more drivers who illegally use bus-only lanes. Over the next 10 months the agency will test the cameras by mounting them on the front of two buses on the Bx12 line in the Bronx.<br \/>\nThe Bx12 is the city&#8217;s first Select Bus Service route, a special limited-stop route that uses various innovations to reduce travel time by 20 percent. Steve Plochochi, a transit official, says drivers who use bus lanes slow down buses, &quot;because as cars and taxis move in and out of the lane, that interrupts our flow of traffic.&quot;<br \/>\nState law doesn&#8217;t allow buses to use mobile cameras to crack down on drivers. A bill was introduced to change that. In the meantime, the pilot project won&#8217;t use the information to ticket drivers.<br \/>\nInstead, the trial period will test software to distinguish between cars traveling in the bus lane, which is illegal, and those merely making a quick stop or a right turn, which is legal.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/news\/articles\/154074\">https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/news\/articles\/154074<\/a>oldId.20100506181857251<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Schuerman NEW YORK, NY April 27, 2010 \u2014New York City Transit will try out mobile video cameras in a move that may eventually lead to ticketing more drivers who illegally use bus-only lanes. Over the next 10 months the agency will test the cameras by mounting them on the front of two buses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=168632337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MTA Tests Cameras to Deter Illegal Use of Bus Lanes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168632337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168632337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168632337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168632337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168632337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168632337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168632337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}