Starting Monday, the MTA expanded the program ACE, or Automated Camera Enforcement, to the Bx9 and Bx15 bus routes.<\/p>\n
Buses are now equipped with cameras able to identify and ticket vehicles that block bus lanes.<\/p>\n
“You know shouldn’t be parking in a bus lane regardless. It’s a consecutive lane that these buses use all day every day,” said Matthew, a Bx15 bus rider.<\/p>\n
The MTA said Monday begins a 60-day warning period. During this time, violators will receive a warning letter in the mail.<\/p>\n
Come January, the city will begin issuing tickets.<\/p>\n
First time offenders will be fined $50. Fines can increase to $250 for repeat violators.<\/p>\n
News 12 cameras caught multiple vehicles double-parked and sitting idle in bus lanes.<\/p>\n
The MTA said a told of 51 bus routes citywide are now equipped with ACE. <\/p>\n
City data shows the initiative is working. But routes with the enforcement have increased speeds by an average of 5%. Some corridors saw an increase as high as 30%.<\/p>\n
Data shows a 20% reduction in collisions and a 40% decrease in these violations altogether.<\/p>\n
Fines will begin being issued following the warning period in January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting Monday, the MTA expanded the program ACE, or Automated Camera Enforcement, to the Bx9 and Bx15 bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20950,141,1604,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-35469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bus-lane-camera-enforcement","tag-mta","tag-mta-bus","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}