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The next time you decide to fake an accident or lob spitballs at the driver on a city bus you may want to think again.
The MTA began recording surveillance footage on six city buses yesterday in a pilot program that by next year will equip 450 buses - half of Manhattan’s fleet - with cameras.
If successful, the $5.2 million pilot program will be expanded to all 4,500 city buses. That’s on top of thousands of cameras already in place at subway stations and the thousands more being considered for subway cars, officials said.
The MTA admits the program probably won’t do much to stop terrorism but will hopefully help the Sharpie wielding bandits that seem to leave their mark on the seats of a lot of city buses.
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1. Sean Martin
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Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.“…by next year will equip 450 buses - half of Manhattan’s fleet”
“…program will be expanded to all 4,500 city buses.”
I hope MTA is better at transport than they are at math.
Posted Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 12:03 pm | Permalink
The 4,000 buses include Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Posted Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 6:20 pm | Permalink
Yeah, realized the difference between “Manhattan” and “the city” shortly after I posted the message.
Sigh. The typing fingers are faster than the brain again. (Which is saying something since I only use 4 fingers…)
Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 at 1:55 am | Permalink
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