Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
We’ve installed forward-facing cameras behind the windshields of 50 Metro buses to detect parking violations in bus lanes, and LADOT has begun issuing citations after a months-long grace period.
Our initial efforts focus on Line 212 on La Brea Avenue and Line 720 on Wilshire Boulevard. Both lines have been hampered due to parking violators in the bus priority lanes.
Keeping bus lanes clear for the benefit of transit riders is essential to making transportation more equitable in Los Angeles.
Blocking bus lanes has a disproportionate impact on bus riders, resulting in delays and disruptions, particularly along high-traffic corridors where bus lanes are critical to keeping buses on time. One vehicle illegally parked in the bus lane can have an outsized burden on the dozens of riders in each bus, resulting in missed transfers and late arrivals.
In addition, illegally parked vehicles may make it impossible for a bus to pull up to the curb, posing a safety threat when passengers must step into the street to enter or exit the bus and creating difficulties for passengers with mobility challenges to board or disembark.
Here’s how it works: When the camera system identifies a vehicle parked in a bus lane or at a bus stop, it creates an “evidence package” of video, photographs, license plate information, and the time and location where the incident occurred.
This package is then reviewed by LADOT, where traffic officers will verify the images and license plates to determine whether a citation should be issued to the vehicle’s owner.
The second phase of the program will focus on Lines 70, 910 and 950. Citations for violations on these lines will start following the 60-day warning period.
As our ridership continues to grow, we anticipate that the program will make our bus service faster and more reliable for the thousands of people who ride these lines every day.
We’ve installed forward-facing cameras behind the windshields of 50 Metro buses to detect parking violations in bus lanes, and LADOT has begun issuing citations after a months-long grace period.
Our initial efforts focus on Line 212 on La Brea Avenue and Line 720 on Wilshire Boulevard. Both lines have been hampered due to parking violators in the bus priority lanes.
Keeping bus lanes clear for the benefit of transit riders is essential to making transportation more equitable in Los Angeles.
Blocking bus lanes has a disproportionate impact on bus riders, resulting in delays and disruptions, particularly along high-traffic corridors where bus lanes are critical to keeping buses on time. One vehicle illegally parked in the bus lane can have an outsized burden on the dozens of riders in each bus, resulting in missed transfers and late arrivals.
In addition, illegally parked vehicles may make it impossible for a bus to pull up to the curb, posing a safety threat when passengers must step into the street to enter or exit the bus and creating difficulties for passengers with mobility challenges to board or disembark.
Here’s how it works: When the camera system identifies a vehicle parked in a bus lane or at a bus stop, it creates an “evidence package” of video, photographs, license plate information, and the time and location where the incident occurred.
This package is then reviewed by LADOT, where traffic officers will verify the images and license plates to determine whether a citation should be issued to the vehicle’s owner.
The second phase of the program will focus on Lines 70, 910 and 950. Citations for violations on these lines will start following the 60-day warning period.
As our ridership continues to grow, we anticipate that the program will make our bus service faster and more reliable for the thousands of people who ride these lines every day.
