So that's 100 drivers a day not being nice to bus lanes (and stupid).
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"Edinburgh fines 100 drivers a day using bus lanes"
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Good. Now roll out the cameras to every bus lane in the city. Also, while you're at it, cameras for ASL enforcement? (Probably 'wrong department' as requires a police officer? Decriminalise then and hand to councils?)
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Personally, I welcome lawbreakers' pockets being tapped to pay for essential front line services.
Assuming that they are all paying the discounted £30 rate, this is £3k a day or over £1 million a year - probably a fair bit more.
This is great news - Edinburgh Council has been able to retain as many as fifty teachers or nurses who would otherwise have had to be made redundant.
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I think councils should use these flouting of the regs to generate cash, as they have no effect on road users, else they wouldn't have to keep doing it, they might as well tax the stupid. As stupids can be found amongst rich and poor it is not a poll tax just a stupid tax so it is fair.
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Assuming that they are all paying the discounted £30 rate, this is £3k a day or over £1 million a year - probably a fair bit more.
Your assuming everyone pays of course!
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Are these fines not like parking tickets so the income is restricted as to where it can be spent (probably on more cameras or more NWC ads)? I doubt it will get anywhere near any teachers or cycling infrastructure unfortunately.
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Income from bus lane camera fines issued by the Council will go towards the achievement of policies set out in the Council’s Local Transport Strategy.
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/1526/public_and_accessible_transport/1655/bus_lane_enforcement
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Insto - that's a legal requirement of any bus lane camera enforcement scheme in Scotland. The cash can be spent on cycling infrastructure in Edinburgh as the Transport Strategy has lots of cycling stuff in it - although there may be another large transport infrastructure project in Edinburgh that is taking care of all the cash for the forseeable future...
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Sure. I was sort of replying to Dave and holophrasis. It's neither as broad as frontline services not as narrow as more cameras.
Posted 11 years ago # -
They ought to till the rich field of drivers who haven't yet noticed that the bus lane on South Gyle Access is back to being a bus lane again.
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Uberuce, they are probably waiting for the first accident before deciding where to site the camera - astonishingly stupid road layout, forcing the buses from the bus lane into immediate conflict with cars just round from the lights - glad I use the path at that point.
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The money raised might be ringfenced for transport, but more money is more money?
If I got a bunch of petrol vouchers that can only be spent on fuel I'd be able to free up the same amount of my "openly assignable" income on bike parts instead. Net result - the vouchers haven't really been spent on fuel.
Say the city is able to raise £X million per annum from administering parking, or bus lanes. It might have to spend that particular amount on fixing potholes, but that frees up £X million of discretionary funding originally earmarked for potholes to pay for nurses and teachers.
Only if you raised so much that it exceeded the transport budget (but couldn't be spent on anything else) would this not be true.
(Am I missing something?)
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Fair point. Dunno if there are any other constraints.
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