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From: Ret. on 17 Apr 2010 11:44
Anyone else see major flaws in the conclusions drawn in this article about
the drop in the number of tickets issued?

"Motorists have been hit with speeding tickets worth almost �1billion under
Labour, a report shows.

But receipts have fallen since police were stopped from keeping part of the
money raised from speed cameras.

It suggests that the explosion in the number of cameras was used as a 'cash
cow' and that forces no longer have an incentive to install them."


Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266620/Proof-speed-cameras-exist-rake-money-receipts-finally-fall.html#ixzz0lNAFbhEL

There is no suggestion that the number of cameras has dropped - only that
the 'receipts' from the cameras have dropped.

Could this not be because fewer people are speeding? I cannot see how the
fact that the police are no longer able to recover their operating costs
from the cameras can reduce the take. We still have the same number of
cameras...

Kev

From: Harry Bloomfield on 17 Apr 2010 18:28
on 17/04/2010, Ret. supposed :
> There is no suggestion that the number of cameras has dropped - only that the
> 'receipts' from the cameras have dropped.
>
> Could this not be because fewer people are speeding? I cannot see how the
> fact that the police are no longer able to recover their operating costs from
> the cameras can reduce the take. We still have the same number of cameras...

I think what has probably happened is that drivers have become more
practised in the art of spotting the cameras and regular users of
routes will know their locations, slowing for them habitually.

I use one stretch of DC where for years there has been a camera just
round a tight corner and partially hidden. It was too late when you saw
the camera to do anything about it. The camera was removed three months
ago, but they do all habitually 'hit' that corner having slowed down to
no more than the limit.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk


From: Nick Finnigan on 18 Apr 2010 06:00
Ret. wrote:
>
> Read more:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266620/Proof-speed-cameras-exist-rake-money-receipts-finally-fall.html#ixzz0lNAFbhEL
>
> There is no suggestion that the number of cameras has dropped - only
> that the 'receipts' from the cameras have dropped.

And there is no evidence that the 'receipts' have dropped, just the
number of tickets issued.
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