Starts This Friday: Double Park & The MTA Will Ticket You – The B12 Bus Line Gets ACE
Update: the MTA will start ticketing drivers after a 60-day warning period on the B12 route serving Crown Heights will implement Automated Camera Enforcement to ticket drivers along its route • Full Story, Details
Update: the MTA will start ticketing drivers after a 60-day warning period on the B12 route.
Beginning Friday, May 15, on the Q60 and B12 bus routes, vehicles improperly using busways and bus lanes, blocking bus stops, or illegally double-parking will receive summonses starting at $50 and escalating to $250 for repeat violators.
By Chabadinfo reporter
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that the B12 bus line serving Crown Heights will implement Automated Camera Enforcement (ACE) to ticket drivers for traffic violations along its route.
The B12 runs through southern Crown Heights, traveling via East New York Avenue (ENY) and Empire Boulevard. The route originates in Brownsville and continues along ENY Avenue and Clarkson Avenue, passing Kings County Hospital, before terminating at the southeastern tip of Prospect Park.
The MTA said there will be a 60-day warning period on the B12 route, which begins today on Monday, March 16.
“Vehicles improperly using busways and bus lanes, blocking bus stops, or illegally double-parked will receive warning notices in the mail for an initial period of 60 days followed by summonses thereafter,” the MTA warns.
Each corridor with an active ACE has signage indicating that the route is camera-enforced. Summonses start at $50 and escalate to $250 for repeat violators
The B12 bus is the third Crown Heights bus line to get cameras to ticket drivers, that block bus lanes (which don’t exist—yet—along the B12 line) or double Park along the line, after the B44 on Nostrand and B46 on Utica Ave—both of which have bus lanes and are SBS services.
It was also ranked as the most unreliable bus in Brooklyn and the “most bunched-together route,” partly because it runs along one-way streets.
In 2023, Chabadinfo reported exclusively that the MTA is planning to add a proposed B10 limited-service route connecting Broadway Junction and Crown Heights, adding buses along Empire Blvd and ENY, as well as
The DOT plans to add bus lanes along ENY (outside Crown Heights) in the future as part of its “Better Buses Action Plan.”
The B12 route was announced alongside the Q60, which joins 56 routes currently enforced. “More than 1,600 buses are now ACE-equipped, covering 560 miles of routes and benefiting over one million customers on an average weekday,” according to the MTA.
“ACE enables bus service to run faster, safer, and more reliably for riders,” the MTA claims. “When combined with dedicated bus lanes and street upgrades, [it] has helped improve bus speeds across the full length of ACE-enabled routes, with some segments on ACE routes achieving gains of nearly 30%.”
The MTA also claims a reduction of collisions and emissions: “These routes have also experienced a 20% reduction in collisions, and 5% to 10% estimated reduction in emissions. There has also been a 40% reduction in bus stops being blocked by vehicles on ACE routes.”
MTA map of the b12 bus line:
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Will they even be photographing and citing double-parkers that are even not disrupting the passage of the bus — such as on the left side of the street, nowhere near a bus stop?