Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Speed cameras paying for more speed cameras

The following graph shows show the amount of speed camera fine revenue that was reclaimed by the partnerships implmenting speed cameras to implement further speed cameras.
Quite a spike after the first year huh?
Source

10 comments:

Centaur said...
2 Jun 2009 12:26:00  

Any chance of a link, Dizzy?

Mr Mauve said...
2 Jun 2009 12:33:00  

I'm not sure I believe the word "Millions" on the y-axis.

Hawkeye said...
2 Jun 2009 12:44:00  

"Safety cameras" my a*se! Cash dispensers, more like.

Maybe "speed/safety cameras" will form part of the Quantatitive Easing strategy? They seem to be a nice little earner....

dizzy said...
2 Jun 2009 13:21:00  

Love the way it is assumed that there must be a "link". However an update has been added. The figures are accurate.

Backbench Warrior said...
2 Jun 2009 13:35:00  

These things are spreading like wildfire. Easy money for big government.

Not a sheep said...
2 Jun 2009 13:36:00  

Dizzy surely the Y-axis cannot be correct. Did speed cameras really raise £95,000,000 million in 2007? That would be £95,000,000,000,000, that's £95 trillion. I know they are a money spinner but surely not that much of one!

Mr Mauve said...
2 Jun 2009 13:37:00  

No, they really aren't - you need to get rid of either "Millions" or each ",000,000".

Since I don't want to be remembered as a drive-by pedant, may I also say that I appreciate your work and think your blog is good 8^)

John Page said...
2 Jun 2009 19:22:00  

Interesting. The funding arrangements changed after 2007. Did the partnerships stop getting any / so much money back?

Macheath said...
2 Jun 2009 20:07:00  

A similar equation is at work in my local car-park; to prevent people passing on display tickets with unexpired time, a new state-of-the art ticket machine has been installed which requires your car reg. no.

The cost of the machine, of course, infinitely outweighs the occasional 50p they missed when we used to hand over unexpired tickets.

Henry Crun said...
3 Jun 2009 09:00:00  

The trick now Dizzy, is to reveal what percentage of ownership ACPO has in the companies providing speed cameras.




 

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