weepej wrote:
PeterE wrote:
If communities were allowed to fund their own speed cameras we might end up with prosperous little villages full of NIMBYs all having their own yellow box, but none in poorer areas. It would set an unfortunate precedent. But I imagine villagers would quickly get fed up of forking out £5000+ a year.
I thought these things were cash cows?
You expect them to be able to keep the revenue from fines right?
They'd be quids in surely catching drivers committing a
criminal act by speeding through their village.
As I say above, even if they were (I suspect fixed cameras generally aren't any more), the economy of scale of adopting a single camera would be prohibitive.
The only practical way of doing this would be to pay a neighbouring scam partnership to administer it for them. I'm not sureif the £5 mentioned is a one-off or what.
I don't know how far from the border of the county it is, let's say a 30 minute round trip from the nearest camera partnership base. I'm assuming the existing safety camera partnership will no longer exist.
Let's also say that the camera needs a thirty minute service visit twice a month by two staff (pure guesswork here).
Let's also say that it requires 5 man hours a month a Scam HQ to issue the tickets/develop the pictures/bank the cheques.
If the partnership was anything like my company (I'm being very ballpark, I know) they would carge about £30 an hour on average for these services, so they would charge £330.00 a month to look after the camera.
What percentage of the fines do we think the villagers might be allowed to keep? Any? 10%? 25%?
Let's say 10%. So in order for the villagers to break even the camera would have to ticket at the rate of £3,300. At £60 each, that's 55 tickets a month.
Some gatsos will make that, but I bet most don't.
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