SFMTA plans to implement $15.6 million in upgrades to its red bus lane ticketing program, which consists of two officers manually reviewing video footage and issuing around 20 citations per day. The new system is expected to help them generate about 100 per day.
As KQED reports, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted Tuesday to implement a series of upgrades to its existing Transit-Only Lane Enforcement (TOLE) program, which launched in 2008 and equipped buses with forward-facing cameras to collect footage of bus lane violations to be analyzed later. Due to staffing limitations, there are currently only two designated parking control officers who analyze this footage, according to an SFMTA staff report, per KQED.
The new project, titled “Next Generation Transit Lane and Bus Stop Enforcement System,” will add new innovations to the existing system, including “real-time data transmission, automated license plate readers and violation detection, as well as GPS mounted on buses to automatically generate evidence packages,” per KQED…