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"MOTORISTS flouting restrictions on the Capital's bus lanes ... to be fined £60"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I am surprised there hasn't been more comment on this thread, have you all voted in the poll? The majority is still there but is has weakened since this morning.
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I voted, tbh the majority of drivers would probably like to see the greenways enforced if only so the idiot in the beemer who just undertook 30 cars on Calder road can be fined very publicly for every ones amusement
Posted 13 years ago # -
When a friend of mine started working for an Edinburgh finance company he was surprised to find that some people were happy to leave their cars right outside and take the ticket as an acceptable expense. If you can afford to run a Beemer the cost of a ticket might not be a huge deterrent. I'd like some kind of other punishment like a short term driving ban, community service or re-education class. In some US states people with driving convictions have them listed on the licence plate.
Cars cutting into the lane at the last minute annoy me a lot but I'm not sure how it could be stopped.
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Ticket fees must indeed be high enough to be a deterrent. If they're not, then people easily view them as a legitimate business expense, like renting a parking space or paying a small user fee to enjoy a less-congested route. I think that removing driving privileges for a set time is the best deterrent, although that is difficult to enforce. Perhaps a combined fee and license suspension would work better; if ticketed a second time while the suspension is in force, a more serious charge should be levied.
I used to live in Philadelphia, a large US city with a car problem. For a time, ticket fees for illegal parking were less than fees required to park in a commercial garage or at a meter, so people rationally selected the illegal parking option. This stopped when the city raised the fine to an eye-popping level. There was quite the outraged hue and cry, but illegal parking decreased dramatically. Unfortunately, garagages raised THEIR fees, too -- they are actually competing with parking fines in a market situation, interestingly. At least it's interesting to me. But then I don't require car parking options.
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