"Hoboken will this week start using cameras to ticket drivers who block bike lanes, bus lanes, and loading zones in its downtown core in the hopes of improving safety and bus service, officials said. Officials in the Home of Sinatra are yet again showing the Big Apple how it's done, using an automated enforcement system along eight blocks of commercial Washington Street to ticket scofflaws. The program starts on Oct. 1."
""We're hoping that it reshapes the center of the city in a way that advances our public safety objectives," Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla told Streetsblog in an interview. "There's no parking that's being taken away, we're just asking motorists not to park in a bus lane, for example." The cameras are installed from Observer Highway near Hoboken Terminal to Eighth Street."
Hoboken will begin automated camera enforcement on eight blocks of Washington Street starting Oct. 1 to ticket vehicles blocking bike lanes, bus lanes, and loading zones. The system, called CLEAR (Camera-based License plate Enforcement for Access and Response times), issues fines matching officer-issued penalties: $63 for blocking a bus stop, $55 for a loading zone violation, and $150 for parking in a bike lane. Prior deployments reported steep reductions in double-parking, including a 95 percent drop in Pittsburgh and 43 percent in Fort Lee. Cameras documented bike lanes blocked an average of four-and-a-half hours per day per block, 68 double-parking violations daily per location, and 158 blocked bus stops.
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