Drivers in parts of Queens and the Bronx will now face new fines for blocking bus lanes.<\/p>\n
Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE) fines began Friday on the Q6 route in Queens and the Bx20, Bx3 and Bx7 routes in the Bronx, the MTA said.<\/p>\n
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Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE) fines began Friday on the Q6 route in Queens and the Bx20, Bx3 and Bx7 routes in the Bronx, the MTA said
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Drivers improperly using bus lanes or busways, blocking bus stops or double-parking illegally along those routes will get summonses starting at $50 and climbing to $250 for repeat violations
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Last week, meanwhile, the transit agency said ACE would roll out along the Bx9 and Bx15 routes in the Bronx and the B11 and B63 routes in Brooklyn.\u00a0A 60-day warning period began Monday<\/p>\n
Drivers improperly using bus lanes or busways, blocking bus stops or double-parking illegally along those routes will get summonses starting at $50 and climbing to $250 for repeat violations, according to the transit agency.<\/p>\n
With the latest expansion, the MTA said 47 routes across the five boroughs now carry active fines under the ACE program.<\/p>\n
Last week, meanwhile, the transit agency said ACE would roll out along the Bx9 and Bx15 routes in the Bronx and the B11 and B63 routes in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
A 60-day warning period began Monday, during which time motorists will receive warnings instead of fines. After the 60-day period ends, summonses \u2014 also starting at $50 \u2014 will begin.<\/p>\n
More than 1,400 buses are now equipped with ACE cameras, covering 545 miles of routes and serving more than 840,000 daily riders, according to the MTA.<\/p>\n
The agency says routes with automated enforcement have seen bus speeds rise by an average of 5%, with some corridors experiencing gains of up to 30%.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the MTA says routes with ACE have seen a 20% decline in collisions, a 5% to 10% estimated drop in emissions and a 40% decrease in blocked bus stops. Only 12% of drivers receive more than two violations after being fined, according to the agency.<\/p>\n
Each route equipped with ACE includes posted signage alerting drivers that cameras are active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers in parts of Queens and the Bronx will now face new fines for blocking bus lanes. Automated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25,1084,297,576,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,27,296,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-39711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-app-traffic-transit","10":"tag-app-traffic-and-transit","11":"tag-erica-brosnan","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-traffic-and-transit","21":"tag-transit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711","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=39711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}