8 - 10 CCTV Cameras per Irish Bus

By Mick Meaney
RINF Alternative News 

Bus Eireann are planning to install 8 to 10 CCTV cameras per bus in a nationwide plan to “reduce vandalism”.

The digital CCTV cameras will cost Irish taxpayers €7,000 per bus with an overall cost of €1.13m - and are being installed on 150 buses in Cork, Galway, Limerick and my old home town of Waterford.

Erica Roseingarve, company spokesperson, said she believed the cameras would “pay for themselves” through a reduction of bogus injury claims.

The cameras will monitor 48 million customers and 1,300 drivers annually, but no indication has been given for how long the data can be stored, who has access to it and how it will be handled.

Also, Translink, a Belfast company, has ordered 285 new buses to be fitted with CCTV cameras, costing £40m.

Translink’s Acting Chief Executive Philip O’Neill said: “We are indebted to the Government for having the foresight to allocate further investment into public transport.”

Just how indebted remains to be seen as the increase of possibilities for tracking a persons’ every move becomes truly terrifying.

Are 8 to 10 CCTV cameras per bus a sign that Big Brother is going mad?

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