In a bid to keep at least one of Yangon’s public transport lines clean and functional, CCTV cameras will be installed on the new bus rapid transport system.
With four cameras in each bus, officials watching from a central control room will be on the lookout for fare-dodgers, betel-nut chewers and smokers.
The new bright yellow buses, introduced earlier this year, are air-conditioned and generally unusually pleasant. They’re also fairly easy to navigate, amid the confusing menagerie of public transportation in Yangon.
But there’s always someone who ruins it for the rest of us.
“We’re going to implement the new system because we have had reports of people who are riding the bus without paying the fare,” an official from the Yangon Public Bus Company, the organization that operates the new buses, told the Global New Light of Myanmar.
“There are also passengers who destroy our bus stops. We have put up warning signs telling passengers to not eat, chew betel [nut] or gum and not to smoke while riding in order to improve the quality of our services and the cleanliness of our vehicles but some passengers don’t heed the warnings. We will now monitor the buses.”
You’ve been warned.
