RTA launches system to monitor the misuse of bus and taxi only lane

The RTA has launched the new Al Masar violation for the misuse of the bus and taxi only lane.  See more at:http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00The RTA has announced that as of April 1, 2015, it will be activating the Al-Masr violation

00:13for the misuse of the bus and taxi-only lanes on Al-Naif Road in Daraa.

00:17So Al-Masr is a new smart system that is used for the dedicated bus lanes and taxi lanes.

00:26We just started here on Al-Naif Road, so there is a dedicated bus and taxi lane of 1.7 kilometers

00:35and we've installed seven cameras in this lane.

00:41The system can detect the black-listed cars.

00:45The white-listed cars are the public buses, our public buses, the taxis, emergency vehicles

00:50such as police cars, civil defense cars and ambulances.

00:56Now this dedicated lane, of course, it has entrances for the parkings, for different roads.

01:02So people, they have a chance to use a dedicated lane for like a distance of 20 meters in each entrance.

01:12You have to have a whole integrated system, rules, regulations, policies that support

01:19encouraging people using public transport in the city.

01:22One of the initiatives is having the dedicated lanes for the buses to encourage people to

01:28use public transport and also to reduce the traffic jams, CO2 emissions.

01:36All these goals are related to this project.

01:42The number of vehicles using the bus and taxi-only lane has dropped by 63% during the experimental

01:47phase of the Al-Masr project, and when the system goes live motorists will receive a

01:51hefty $600 fine for violating this new traffic rule.

01:55Logan Fish, Gulf News.