Council makes 210k from bus lane camera

nexus2011

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/VE-GOTCHA/article-3486978-detail/article.html

Amazes me how people can complain.

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UP TO £210,000 has been raked in by a council in fines after a spy camera caught 3,465 motorists driving along a 20-metre bus lane in just seven months.
The drivers have been snared by Stoke-on-trent City Council's CCTV car parked on the corner of Huntbach Street, in Hanley.
They were hit with £60 fines for driving on the bus lane which leads to two car parks behind Boots and Marks and Spencer.
Motorists who do not drive along the bus lane face a 1.3-mile detour along Potteries Way to access the two car parks in Meigh Street.

Now drivers have accused the council, which needs to save £35.6 million this year, of making easy money with the cameras.

alastairq

Now drivers have accused the council, which needs to save £35.6 million this year, of making easy money with the cameras.

The Council is a Public service, for the Public, accountable to the Public.

The are not a profiteering private enterprise.

I would applaud the Council for relieving these...erm...drivers, of 'easy money'..after all, it is the drivers who are making it 'easy'...

Bring it on, I say...charge 'em more ....make them pay for their own 'convenience'....drivers do have a choice, after all.

clever_username

Don't drive in the bus lane. It really is that simple.