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Taxi-camera approval stalled for three years; drivers and vendor urge GTB and city to resolve code issues
Summary
Ground Transportation Bureau officials told the council that a Janus camera system has not been approved because of code concerns (panic-button placement, on/off switch, storage/retention). The vendor and taxi operators said the system records continuously and that the approval delay (cited as three years) and a single approved vendor have created cost and access problems.
A long-running dispute over taxi-cab camera approval dominated public comment as the City Council GA committee closed its meeting, with the Ground Transportation Bureau (GTB) outlining technical and procedural reasons it has not approved a vendor’s updated camera system and taxi operators urging the city to act.
Erica Jarrow, operations supervisor for the GTB, said the bureau began communicating with the vendor in late 2022 but lacked a permanent administrator during parts of the process and that several technical specifications remain unresolved.…
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