Urban buses and trolleybuses in the greater Athens-Piraeus area will finally traffic enforcement and surveillance cameras installed in the coming period, an initiative aimed at detecting moving violations by other vehicles and bus lane infractions.
An ongoing crackdown in the Greek capital aims to keep all but buses and emergency vehicles from using the all-important bus lanes on traffic-clogged roadways.
A pilot phase will begin next month.
The “new wrinkle” in the traffic surveillance system is the use of AI to detect violations, including illegally parked vehicles. No tickets will be issued during the pilot phase.
Expanding mass transit systems in the greater Athens-Piraeus agglomeration has failed to keep up with a growing fleet of passenger cars, motorcycles, vans, coaches and trucks, as millions of visitors annually to the area have been added to the roughly four and a half permanent residents.
