A) To make money?B) To curb bad driving behavior?
Those of you who have followed my blog know that this is one of my pet peeves.
You would think by now they would have discovered a way to not speed through a school zoneJalopnikBy Collin WoodardOctober 29, 2024[…]It doesn’t appear that the $50 citation increases with the number of speeding tickets given, but that still works out to nearly $1,500 in speeding tickets in two weeks. Maybe they’ll stop speeding once they realize how much this is going to cost them?Considering how many tickets Albany’s new speeding cameras gave out in that same time period, I’m not optimistic. School-zone speeders accumulated a difficult-to-believe 12,895 tickets in that 10-day time period, and that’s just since the city began handing out fines. Cameras still under the 30-day grace period added another 14,834 warnings to the list. It’s also important to note that these tickets aren’t for going a single mile per hour over the posted speed limit. Drivers were only ticketed if they exceeded 10 mph over the limit, or 30 mph in a 20 mph zone.
I like to point out that those 12,895 tickets brought in $644,000 at 50 bucks a pop!
If you picked “A” you are right, this is a big money making business for both the camera company and the town.
If you picked “B” that is what it is supposed to do but… because it could easily be two weeks or up to month or more until get the ticket you never know you that you were going too fast until you got the 29 tickets!
When there is a patrol officers there you know immediately that you were going too fast, but the other way the town racks in hundred of thousands of dollars.
Unfortunately for taxpayers, the city doesn’t get to keep all of they money it brings in from those speeding cameras. In fact, it doesn’t even get a majority of it. For every $50 fine paid, $17 goes to the city, and $33 goes to the camera company. So while $200,000 in 10 days is nothing to sneeze at, it’s also still a lot less than the nearly $650,000 the guilty speeders will have to part with.
Speed cameras and Red Light cameras are just money making machines!
I wonder how many of those speeding tickets were reviewed and processed within those ten days? Did the driver have time to become aware of his/her speeding? Where I live a school speed zone ticket is at a minimum $134. At one particular intersection where the normal speed is 35 mph with a "red light" camera, the camera had to be taken out because it was causing too many rear-end crashes.
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