This is indicative of ABLE cameras’ effectiveness in influencing driver behavior” Additionally, since implementation in October 2019, New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) has issued 269,000 violations. As the program expanded to more routes, 84,000 violations have been issued between January and May 2023, making up for about a third of the total in just five months. With the activation on this route, the MTA will have 555 buses equipped with ABLE cameras on 19 routes across Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and Queens. Locations were determined to maximize the length of bus lanes covered, balance distribution between boroughs, address some of the newer bus lanes, and incorporate input from the MTA and NYCDOT on known locations with issues.
Upon implementation of ABLE cameras on the Q58, NYCDOT will issue warning notices to motorists for the first 60 days, in accordance with State law, to ensure drivers are informed about the program before any fines are levied. Each bus lane corridor with ABLE camera coverage has signage indicating the hours that the bus lanes are operable and advises drivers that the lanes are camera-enforced. Drivers who violate these rules during enforcement periods are subject to a summons, with fines beginning at $50 and escalating, for repeat offenders, up to $250.
Comment by Russ Johnson:
But Russ is forgetting that one of the disastrous problems with tracked streetcars was... that any blockage, even slight, held the cars up completely until wholly remediated -- and that any cars following could not proceed either. Perhaps he is suggesting that we pass 'don't block the box' legislation for streetcar lanes and then install massive penalty plows or claws to clear the routes 'with extreme prejudice' should any violation be observed. (In typical New York tradition, with fines and charges billed to whoever they can manage...)
The point of the ABLE cameras is that they detect obstruction precisely at the point and time it matters: when a camera-equipped bus is actually blocked or impeded. Use of cameras just to keep anyone out of the lane even for a moment all the time -- which used to be the way the bus lanes were enforced -- is pretty transparently a fee grab rather than traffic enhancement.
Just get a front end loader, tip the offending car out of the way on its roof and leave it there. A few of those and the problem will be solved.
Actually, the Russians have a better answer -- a straight truck with a hydraulic grab crane. Drives alongside, drops the curved grab through the roof, picks the car up and dumps it in the back, and carries on.
In this country we'd probably check for children in the back first.
I like it. Would you sell franchises?
I know someone in Boise who has all the blueprints and IP for swap-body production. We can easily tool to make these for various chassis combinations, so that they can be used for rental or lease and then with a simple no-tools conversion used for other 'desirable social purposes'. White multiple-door units with three-level shackle attach points for FEMA. Need I say too much more?
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