Dubai: Be prepared to pay Dh600 for bus lane violations in Al Ghubaiba and Mamazar from Tuesday.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) installed cameras on dedicated bus and taxi lanes in Al Ghubaiba and Al Mamzar last month to monitor the misuse of the lanes by other road users.
The cameras will be activated from November 1 and fines will be automatically issued on the plate numbers of the violating vehicles.
Adel Shakeri, Director of Transportation Systems at RTA said that private motorists were offered a one-month’s trial to get accustomed to the restrictions.
He added that during the trial period the cameras caught 8,439 violations, but they were not penalised.
However, the system will start issuing fines for all violations from Novmeber 1.
Dubai has seven kilometres of bus and taxi priority lanes spread across different parts of the city.
Last year, the RTA installed APNR or automatic number plate recognition cameras on a dedicated bus lane on Naif road, which helped reduced violations by 88 per cent.
