On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Marc Brett wrote:

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:26:15 +0100, Dave Arquati wrote:

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/n..._ca meras.php

According to the above story, TfL spent about £14m on bus lane
enforcement and received about £15m in penalty charges, resulting in a
"small" profit of around £1m - and a motorists' group is complaining
that they spent so much on it.

A pressure group deploys a selfish and irrational argument? My mind, i'm
afraid, remains firmly unboggled.

Surely if TfL had made a huge profit on penalties, they'd get even more
stick just like the police do with speed cameras?

The £14 million wasn't spent to raise revenue from penalty charges, it
was spent to make the buses run to schedule. How effectively was THIS
achieved? Did better running buses increase ridership? Reduce running
costs? Increase profits? If these goals were achieved, then it would
have been worth it even if the penalty charges didn't fully cover the
costs of the cameras.

Er, hang on. You're asking if the benefits justify the cost? The cost,
once you factor in the revenues, was _negative_! Even if it didn't have
any benefits, it'd be worth it!

tom

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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Marc Brett wrote:
The £14 million wasn't spent to raise revenue from penalty
charges, it was spent to make the buses run to schedule. How
effectively was THIS achieved? Did better running buses increase
ridership? Reduce running costs? Increase profits? If these
goals were achieved, then it would have been worth it even if the
penalty charges didn't fully cover the costs of the cameras.

Er, hang on. You're asking if the benefits justify the cost? The
cost, once you factor in the revenues, was _negative_! Even if it
didn't have any benefits, it'd be worth it!

But it has to actually benefit bus speeds otherwise you'll get
motorists arguing with it and annoying newspaper columnists saying "You
Couldn't Make It Up!".

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