Beginning this coming Sunday, Israel Police will begin testing a new system, one that will detect if a private vehicle travels in a public transport lane. The cameras will be testing in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, monitoring bus/taxi lanes, seeking to apprehend motorists who use the lanes to ‘make time’.
During the past months, a camera was installed ahead of the program at Namir-Yehuda HaMaccabi in Tel Aviv, testing the quality of images during the day and night. A vehicle seen traveling in the public transport lane will be photographed and a summons sent to the registered owner in the mail.
In Israel today, there is over 165 kilometers of public transport lanes. The cameras will not replace manual enforcement by traffic police, but in addition to the cops on the beat.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
Great. I hope this will be used all throughout the city (and country).
Daniel Breslauer, it might be used but people will be getting a lot of tickets!
shucks till now i wud have an excuse for the cop oh im from a dif country bla bla bla and get away with it now its messed up cant argue with the cameras………………
#2 – So what? If they stick to the law, they won’t get ANY tickets.
One Jerusalem city bus tends to equal *at least* 50 cars. Anything should be done to increase the usefulness, availability and speed of public transportation in Jerusalem. Same for Tel Aviv and Haifa, but for Jerusalem even more so.
Police in Israel usually reat traffic laws as suggestions, unless they can write a ticket with minimum effort.
Also most of the traffic cameras in use have no film in them (too expensive according to police). Other camera boxes are totally empty.
Why would anyone believe that it will be different with these cameras?