"Clive D. W. Feather" typed


In article , purple pete
writes
They have just removed a bus lane cam near here as it was making £1M - yes
thats right, £1M

Over what period?

Assuming the fine is £100, that's 10 *thousand* people being caught. If
that amount is measured over a year and the lane operates 6 days a week,
that's 33 people a day or perhaps 3 an hour.

- locals went mad when they found out

What, at how many of them misuse the bus lane?
No, at the scale of the money involved ;-)

- its position was
very bad too which caused alot of people to get caught out - and to be fair
knowing the area and the junction it was in a silly place.

Either it covered a bus lane or it didn't. If it did, then what's the
beef? If it didn't, then surely someone would have appealed in very
short order, meaning that it would *not* have "made" the amounts
suggested.

If purple is discussing the camera I think he is, it was £800,000 over a
year. That's 20-30 per day, which doesn't sound quite so dramatic! The
bus lane operates from 7-10 am and 4-7pm IIRC.

It was on the A5 High Street Edgware/Burnt Oak Broadway on (Southbound I
think) approach to the traffic lights at its junction with Deansbrook
Road/Camrose Avenue. Traffic which does not wish to turn right tends to
avoid the queues by diving into the bus lane. There are several car
dealerships near the junction.

There are many petrol hotheads round here...

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.