Buses World News
In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
Want to Speed Up NYC Buses? * USA - Get Bus Camera Legislation Through Albany Gridlock
New York,NY,USA -MYD, by Steven -March 20, 2010: -- Albany hasn’t had a great record on public transit issues recently. But state elected officials have a chance to pass legislation that would mean an easier commute for millions of transit riders: Allowing large cities to use bus lane enforcement cameras. Like red light cameras, these would take photos or short video of license plates when a driver illegally holds up busloads of people by parking in a bus lane, and a ticket would arrive in the mail. (They’ve been used successfully in London and other cities around the world)... 2.4 million New Yorkers take the bus every day, according to MTA statistics. But the city’s buses are also some of the slowest in the country. According to the Straphangers Campaign, the M42 crosstown bus is slower than “a five-year-old on a motorized tricycle,” traveling at 3.7 miles per hour... New bus-only lanes, like the city is planning on First and Second Avenues in Manhattan, could give millions of commuters a faster ride and more time to spend with their friends and family. But without real enforcement, the new lanes will probably look just like the ones NYC has now...Labels: bus' cameras
BUS CAMERAS * USA
* Cameras for Vermilion Parish School BusesLafayette,LA,USA -KATC -5 April 2008: -- Vermilion Parish students who act up on the school bus, could soon be caught on camera... The school board has voted to put digital video cameras on all full-size Parish school buses. The cameras cost about $1300 a piece. Outfitting all the buses will cost about $78,000... School officials say, ten buses are already outfitted with cameras. They say, they've helped solve a few small discipline issues...* Video Cameras More Popular on School Buses
La Crosse,WI,USA -WKBT, by Bart Winkler -April 4, 2008: -- Video cameras in school buses are becoming more and more common, as school districts are installing them as an added safety measure... West Salem district officials have decided to phase in more video cameras on their buses in addition to the ones they already have... The video cameras aren't being installed in response to students behavior, but rather to make buses as safe as possible...Labels: bus' cameras
Bus Cameras * USA & Canada - To eye bus passengers
* Surveillance system protects riders, drivers, Saskatoon Transit says
Hamilton,Ontario,Canada -The Star Phoenix/Canada.com, by Danielle Mario -March 31, 2008: -- The success of a bus video surveillance pilot project means cameras could be a feature on all new buses... In the summer of 2006, a program began involving the installation of video cameras at the front and rear of city transit buses, as well as a digital sound and recording system... In a report going to city hall today, Saskatoon Transit says it plans to make the camera systems standard for all new buses... The move is a result of positive feedback from transit operators, heralding the system for providing a sense of security for drivers, for footage to aid investigators of bus crimes and for a reduction in vandalism. There was no negative feedback from transit passengers... The new system will feature an additional camera, filming the passengers as they enter the bus, in addition to the two cameras filming the aisles as people come and go from their seats... (Photograph by : Greg Pender, The StarPhoenix - Saskatoon Transit wants surveillance cameras, like the one at the front of this bus, to be standard equipment on all new buses )* Cameras catch the action on Gaston County School buses
Gastonia,NC,USA -The Gaston Gazette, by Amanda Millard -March 31, 2008: -- Pat Dye has been behind the wheel of a big yellow bus for 20 years... Dye said the students who ride bus No. 439 - those from Forestview High School and Cramerton Middle - behave well while on board, though fights do happen sometimes...Any fights that do occur on one of Gaston County Schools 215 regular school buses are caught on tape... Each school bus comes equipped with a small camera mounted inside the bus... The camera records to a VHS tape, which can be pulled to review footage and verify what happens on bus routes... (Photos by John Clark/The Gaston Gazette - Students board school buses at Forestview High School on a Thursday afternoon)Labels: bus' cameras
New York,NY,USA -MYD, by Steven -March 20, 2010: -- Albany hasn’t had a great record on public transit issues recently. But state elected officials have a chance to pass legislation that would mean an easier commute for millions of transit riders: Allowing large cities to use bus lane enforcement cameras. Like red light cameras, these would take photos or short video of license plates when a driver illegally holds up busloads of people by parking in a bus lane, and a ticket would arrive in the mail. (They’ve been used successfully in London and other cities around the world)... 2.4 million New Yorkers take the bus every day, according to MTA statistics. But the city’s buses are also some of the slowest in the country. According to the Straphangers Campaign, the M42 crosstown bus is slower than “a five-year-old on a motorized tricycle,” traveling at 3.7 miles per hour... New bus-only lanes, like the city is planning on First and Second Avenues in Manhattan, could give millions of commuters a faster ride and more time to spend with their friends and family. But without real enforcement, the new lanes will probably look just like the ones NYC has now...
