Crackdown on drivers using city bus lanes

TRAFFIC cameras are to be set up to catch rogue motorists who drive illegally in bus lanes.

Glasgow City Council is the first local authority in Scotland to buy the cameras capable of catching 50 times as many drivers as standard road traffic cameras.

The first of five machines, each costing £17,000, will go live in Dumbarton Road, Scotstoun, on Monday in a crackdown on illegal bus lane use. They will operate 24 hours a day.

Locations for the remaining four cameras have not yet been disclosed by the local authority.

The introduction of the cameras comes weeks after a Glasgow City Council report set a target of raising £376,000 by 2015 through ‘increased bus lane camera enforcement’.