BOSTON (SHNS) – An automated camera enforcement pilot program on four MBTA buses captured 26,000 violations during a 30-day period in February, an MBTA official told the agency board on Thursday.
Ahead of formally launching the program in 2027, the T on Oct. 1 will begin a “public education period” about the program, sending educational notices via mail to vehicle owners who park in bus stops and park or stop in bus lanes on Silver Line routes 4 and 5. Enforcement will ultimately expand to the T’s entire service area, per the agency.
“We operate service at about 7,000 individual bus stops across our service network. There really just is no way for us to consistently monitor all of those stops, all of the hours of the day,” T Transit Priority Director Alex Hallowell said during an MBTA Board meeting presentation in downtown Boston…