Metro News Release

For immediate release: February 24, 2005

Metro to purchase more video cameras for metrobuses

Metro officials announced today that they will purchase new automated video recording equipment to enable cameras to view activities on 125 Metrobuses. The announcement occurred during the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) Board Customer Service, Operations and Safety Committee meeting.

Currently, video cameras are on 100 of the 1,400 Metrobuses in the fleet and they are operating throughout the metropolitan region. The new video cameras, at a cost of $8,000 per Metrobus ($1 million total), will be installed on Metrobuses that operate in areas when there are reported incidents that require police action.

In addition, Metro is scheduled to take initial delivery of 250 new Compressed Natural Gas buses later this year and those buses will have video cameras on them. All future orders for new buses will also have video cameras.

News release issued on February 24, 2005.