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This type of enforcement pays for itself. Quick google search shows $115-150 for blocking a bus lane by standing parking or other means. Same price for bike lan
by grogenaut 9y ago
This type of enforcement pays for itself. Quick google search shows $115-150 for blocking a bus lane by standing parking or other means. Same price for bike lanes. That's $115 for a few minutes of work while on patrol or checking meters. You get 4 in an hour (seems likely) you're doing very well.
Ever heard of speed traps? Jurisdictions that pay for themselves by ruining a stretch of highway. Same deal here.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. However saying that it's "limited budget for enforcement" is just wrong. It is in fact a "Revenue Generation Opportunity".
- jedberg 9y agoThat only works if everyone in town knows about it and you only catch tourists. If you start nailing locals for something they do all the time, they get really upset.
- konschubert 9y agoMaybe they should stop parking in bike lanes then.
- rootusrootus 9y agoPerhaps. But usually what happens when city gov't starts relentlessly targeting their own citizens with what amounts to revenue generation via enforcement, the citizens effect change in the gov't so it stops.
- kazagistar 9y agoSeems good: make the law reflect reality, rather then fake laws with no enforcement.
- DanBC 9y agoThat didn't seem to have stopped the enforcement efforts in places like Missouri. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqskm
- grogenaut 9y agoNYC still has automated red light cameras... well known to piss people off. So I would say experimentally you are wrong.