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Big Brother Is Watching You on Brooklyn Buses

020909bus.jpg While the MTA is moving forward on installing partitions to protect bus drivers from stabbers and biters, officials have also assigned camera-equipped buses to the Brooklyn route where a driver was killed in December. But Brooklyn's gain is apparently Manhattan's loss; "Tito" at the Flatbush depot tells the Post that 30 of the special buses were transferred out of Manhattan soon after the fatality. They come equipped with six to seven cameras that view the inside and outside of the vehicle. The MTA refused to comment on the security upgrade, but one driver says, "I like knowing that if something happens, it'll be recorded." Plus it should yield some amusing videos of people frantically running to catch the bus.

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  • blackcotton

    Last Fall the MTA announced that they were abandoning the bus video program because it did not work. So now they are putting the non working program in Brooklyn. Who are they trying to fool?

  • breaknight

    Partitions for drivers is a sign of a backslide to bad old New York in my opinion.

  • Brooklynbobby

    "One driver says, "I like knowing that if something happens, it'll be recorded." Plus it should yield some amusing videos of people frantically running to catch the bus."

    Now we know what bus drivers do for kicks when they get home.

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