At Tuesday’s Transportation Committee meeting, Public Works Director Hal Adkins told members the Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) was considering including a $500,000 investment in a state-of-the-art video and audio surveillance camera system on all of the buses and vehicles in Ocean City’s fleet as part of the agency’s fiscal year 2017 allocation to the resort. Adkins said the offer “came out of left field” and the discussions were only cursory at this time, but the MTA was encouraging Ocean City to accept the offer.
The MTA is recommending Ocean City move forward with implementing a transit surveillance system aboard its entire fleet, which currently includes 65 vehicles including ADA vans. The MTA is recommending as many as five or six cameras inside and out for the standard 40-foot buses and eight or nine cameras for the each of the two new articulating buses. Given the total number of vehicles in the resort’s current fleet, the total number of cameras would be around 400.
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Why do they need federal funding for this?
ReplyDeleteCome on . . . Can't local municipalities get off of the fed's teet?
Yes, lets have more cameras so they can track you with and something else they can use against you years from now... Cameras would alright if they were not all connected to each other and have facial recognition software running...
ReplyDeleteRemind you of something? Minority report???? Thought police????
Well guess what, federal funding has strings attached. eventually what 414 is mentioning will occur! Of course funding to maintain and keep those employed with this smart little trick. Will be pulled when the states do not comply with the the FEDS dictates. Of course this is all borrowed money from your great great great great great great grandchildren part of the 18 trillion dollar debt. So it's not like it just appeared out of nowhere. So Be careful what you wish for cause big brother is watching you. Kinda makes you wonders how these new gadgets paint us further into corners as we tighten the vice around around our necks just for a little safety and of course the kids.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely like police on bus. Not sure how the cameras will work but police were great I started riding the bus again. Before you had nothing but drunks starting fights and drug dealers hitting on females.
ReplyDeleteSurprise! Town Council members don't ride the bus and neither do Town Managers. Just what would they do with all the new cars they bought for themselves?
ReplyDeleteNearly ALL bus drivers watch out for the passengers whoever they are and sometimes get beat up by the bad guys. They will use their resources to protect you and your family from those passengers who are nasty. Same goes for your kids.
The season just begins and has a long way to go.