Welsh speed cameras generate most cash
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Nobody else seems to have picked this titbit up.
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[quote=Western Mail]The Tories, who applied for the statistics, claimed the document showed speed cameras were "cash-raisers not life-savers".
The Tories say the partnerships are stuck in a cycle of putting up more and more cameras to maintain their revenue.
"The public will be staggered to learn it costs more than £90m a year to run speed cameras.
The biggest surplus of all is in the Mid and South Wales safety camera partnership, which had a surplus of £2,213,926 in the 2003-04 financial year - accounting for 10% of the UK total. It raised £7,281,180 from fines, and spent £5,067,254 on maintaining cameras and road safety projects. The partnership covers the South Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys forces. The next biggest surplus is in Sussex at £1,593,159.[/quote]
I, myself, I, would go as far as saying that there is probably some creative accounting going on here and now that the Tories have made this statement
[quote=Westminster Shadow Transport Secretary Alan Duncan] This provides yet more evidence that speed cameras are being used as a stealth tax to raise money from hard-pressed motorists.[/quote]
they had better put a remedy in their manifesto.
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[quote=Western Mail]The Tories, who applied for the statistics, claimed the document showed speed cameras were "cash-raisers not life-savers".
The Tories say the partnerships are stuck in a cycle of putting up more and more cameras to maintain their revenue.
"The public will be staggered to learn it costs more than £90m a year to run speed cameras.
The biggest surplus of all is in the Mid and South Wales safety camera partnership, which had a surplus of £2,213,926 in the 2003-04 financial year - accounting for 10% of the UK total. It raised £7,281,180 from fines, and spent £5,067,254 on maintaining cameras and road safety projects. The partnership covers the South Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys forces. The next biggest surplus is in Sussex at £1,593,159.[/quote]
I, myself, I, would go as far as saying that there is probably some creative accounting going on here and now that the Tories have made this statement
[quote=Westminster Shadow Transport Secretary Alan Duncan] This provides yet more evidence that speed cameras are being used as a stealth tax to raise money from hard-pressed motorists.[/quote]
they had better put a remedy in their manifesto.
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