Dedicated Bus Lanes On North Avenue Open Tuesday

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Seven miles of dedicated autobus lanes opened connected North Avenue, offering transit awesome precedence to buses that officials accidental reduces question times by 25%, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration announced Tuesday.

The lanes are marked “Bus Only” and tin lone beryllium utilized by buses, exigency vehicles, schoolhouse buses and cyclists. Other vehicles are permitted to to participate the lane to marque a close crook astatine an intersection oregon to entree a parallel parking space.

Drivers look fines of $250 for stopping oregon parking successful dedicated autobus lanes and $500 for driving successful the lanes. Enforcement is handled by the Baltimore Police Department, MDOT MTA Police, Baltimore City Transportation Enforcement Officers.

With the caller lanes connected North Avenue, the metropolis present has astir 13 miles of dedicated autobus lanes, officials said. The archetypal lanes were installed successful 2017 arsenic portion of the BaltimoreLink autobus relaunch and reduced thrust times connected immoderate routes by 25%.

“Additional dedicated autobus lane miles on North Avenue volition amended on-time show and lawsuit service, resulting successful a transit acquisition that’s much convenient, reliable and charismatic to riders,” said MDOT Secretary Greg Slater. “This task is portion of MDOT’s committedness to modernize our network, supply high-quality work and prioritize transit arsenic we enactment with our partners successful the metropolis to amended mobility for each users.”

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The caller lanes are portion of the $27.3 cardinal North Avenue Rising project, which besides includes improvements astatine large autobus stops and sidewalks, motorcycle facilities, and repaving.