Drivers will be warned about the new regulations with a mobile camera unit out over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
The locations of the camera housings spread across the city – they are in the city centre, A5127 Lichfield Road\/A38 Tyburn Road, A441 Pershore Road and B4128 in Bordesley Green.<\/p>\n
The council aims to catch drivers illegally using bus lanes in the city with the 20 camera housings but only ten posts will be active at a given time, with cameras moving between the locations preventing drivers from discovering which are active.<\/p>\n
The new enforcement cameras will go live Monday 4th<\/sup> September with motorists receiving warning letters if caught in bus lanes.<\/p>\n After the 2nd<\/sup> October, however, breaches will mean drivers being fined \u00a360 \u2013 reduced to \u00a330 if paid within the first 14 days.<\/p>\n City Council cabinet member Stewart Stacey said, “The message really couldn’t be simpler: cross the line, pay the fine.<\/p>\n “This is about keeping the city moving and selfish motorists who illegally travel in bus lanes have a serious impact on journey times for bus and taxi passengers and further exacerbate the city’s congestion problems.<\/p>\n “Even if we don’t collect a single penny the scheme will still be a success because it will mean people have heeded our message and are obeying the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Birmingham City Council has announced its aim to target \u201cselfish drivers\u201d as it erects 20 bus lane cameras across the city. Drivers will be warned about the new regulations with a mobile camera unit out over the coming weeks. The locations of the camera housings spread across the city – they are in the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":23836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,239,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-motoring","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}