"dwb" writes:

Neil Jones wrote:

This is why bus lane cameras should only be fitted to the front of
buses and manually operated by the driver - because if your brief
foray into a bus lane doesn't hold a bus up, you shouldn't be
penalised.

Like if you exceed the speed limit but don't kill anyone you shouldn't
be penalised either, I suppose...

Blimey, that's awfully close to common sense....

You know what we think about common sense round here.

The difference with bus lanes is that using one isn't so much of a
stochastic issue over whether you hold up a bus, whereas with breaking
speed limits, the amortised danger is quite high even if it's just 1
offence in many hundreds of thousands that actually ends in causing a
collision. (According to an ad I saw on a bus in Frome, each high
speed crash costs the local hospital £100 000, so the amortized cost
to the taxpayer of each speeding offence is non-negligible)

Of course you have to believe that speeding increases risk to accept
this argument, and I'm not going to try to persuade anyone of
that. Life's too short.

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