Some Bronx motorists are getting creative to avoid $250 tickets now that about 1,000 MTA buses are equipped with cameras to capture the license plates of cars blocking bus lanes. A video shared online showed a row of vehicles illegally parked in a bus lane on Webster Avenue were sitting with their trunks popped open, their license plates facing the sky, in a bid to evade the cameras.
Fines for obscuring license plates to prevent them from being captured by cameras can be even higher than the bus lane ticket itself - in place since June, they range from $100 to $500. Repeat offenders with three or more convictions within five years face a 90-day suspension of their registration, according to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Others slammed the brakes on the trunk idea. 'You will not win the fight against a bus ticket,' one woman advised. 'I close trunks doing this,' one TikTok user warned.
On Monday, the same TikToker shared a video of a seemingly fake fire hydrant that had toppled over on a NYC sidewalk. 'People put fake hydrants in front of their houses so you won't park there,' she wrote, adding, 'Me wondering why there are 5 hydrants on one block.'
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