Of course the private company running the cameras are in it for the good of society and not the money making potential of the thing
The private company are on a fixed fee, regardless of the number of fines/penalty points.
Why?I would prefer if they were on some form of commission basis
A fixed fee paid from expected revenue from the cameras.The private company are on a fixed fee, regardless of the number of fines/penalty points. As someone else pointed out, the fines will be issued by the Garda, not by the private company.
Why?
Precisely. An easy way to make money that most people won't complain about.and i'm sure they'll be expected to make a lot of money to justify that.
If the speed limits on the roads in this country actually made any sense then there would be no need for the vast majority of speed cameras.
My house is on a very busy main road and it could take you 5-15 minutes to actually pull out of the drive way and get out onto the road. There are 10 houses along this road but motorists go speeding along and drive in the hard shoulder which is extremely dangerous and there have been plenty of accidents and near misses along that road. There are no speed cameras or garda presence etc yet this would be described as a "black spot", the type of spot that the gardai say they target when clearly they don't?
Speed cameras are nothing more than tax collectors. All the evidence shows this...