NYC Will Use In-Road Sensors to Automatically Fine Overweight Trucks

New York City has plenty of infrastructure challenges to deal with. In an effort to better protect and maintain its various highways and expressways, it will now implement new sensors to automatically monitor and fine overweight trucks on its roads.

As announced by the city's Department of Transport on Twitter, the new automated enforcement program will target overweight trucks traveling on the aging Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). In-road sensors will monitor the weight of passing vehicles, in what is being called the BQE Weigh-In-Motion program.

https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT/status/1688568589899444225

It's a nifty way to monitor vehicle weights without the onerous space requirements and stoppages required with a traditional manual weighbridge setup. Instead, vehicles will be measured during their regular travel, with automated license-plate cameras used to enforce fines for vehicles in breach of the city's vehicle weight limits. The enforcement regime will only target the City-owned section of the BQE, covering the roadway from the area of Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street in Brooklyn.