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Los Angeles Council Votes 13-1 to Put Bus Lane Cameras on DASH Buses Starting Nov. 1
The Los Angeles City Council on Oct. 21 approved installing up to 50 cameras on city DASH buses to automatically enforce bus lane and bus stop parking violations. Thirty buses go live downtown Nov. 1, with warnings only for the first 60 days.
Why it matters
Bus lane violators in Los Angeles are about to be watched: the City Council voted 13-1 on Wednesday (Oct. 21) to authorize the installation of up to 50 cameras on city DASH buses, automatically capturing vehicles parked illegally in bus lanes and at bus stops as part of an expanded automated bus lane enforcement program. Councilman John Lee cast the lone no vote; Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez was absent.
The transportation department (LADOT) will implement the program Nov. 1: a first phase of 30 buses covering all downtown DASH routes (A, B, D, E, F and Pico-Union); after Jan. 27, 2027, 20 more cameras on routes through Crenshaw, Panorama City/Van Nuys, Watts and Wilshire Center/Koreatown.
Full report
The city will issue warnings only for the first 60 days. In a 60-day pilot, LADOT collected data for more than 2,400 violations along DASH routes A and F downtown, averaging four bus lane violations per bus per hour, including vehicles parked illegally at bus stops — slowing boardings and alightings and causing safety risks and traffic delays.
The council also approved designating specific street segments as bus lanes and the department's updated automated license plate reader use policy. LADOT plans to piggyback on Metro's existing contract with Hayden AI; the three-year deal for installation, operation, management and maintenance of up to 50 cameras would cost $3.43 million.
Long-term operation depends on the extension of a 2021 state law: AB 917, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021, authorizes public transit agencies statewide to collect video images of parking violations in bus lanes and zones and to issue and adjudicate citations.
Privacy rules follow state law CVC 40240: video with no violation is destroyed within 15 days; images containing evidence of a violation are kept up to six months or 60 days after final disposition of the citation. The cameras target violating vehicles only and do not capture identifying images of other drivers, vehicles or pedestrians.
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