"Bus gate fines in Glasgow top £800,000 in two months".
or...
"28,000 motorists openly flouted a single restriction in two months"
The STV has churnalised a similar article with a more chipwrapper title, but at least didn't bother ("for the sake of balance") to turn up a quote from the usual sort of local business body which imagines that the more vehicles drive past their businesses, the better it is for custom.
Drivers hit with £800,000 bus lane fines at junction in two months
This thing is, on balance, the content of the article explains that in the grand scheme of things these totals are small fry of council budgets and that (seemingly) Edinburgh hardly brings in any fines by comparison. The annoyance is why both media outlets lead with a title that implies that it is not the number of people breaking a restriction that is the problem but the level of fines which is somehow scandalous.
It's no wonder that councils like Edinburgh are so quick to about turn whenever they turn on their own bus-lane cameras and find quite so many people openly flouting the restrictions.
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