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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by sva_ on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:59PM (#38564924)
The 100k population German city I live in recently reported they made 2 million Euro in this year so far (using speed cameras alone.) That doesn't seem like nothing.
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by jacquesm on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:00PM (#38564937)
2 million / year is 5500 euros / day or about 100 infractions. On a city of 100k I'd say they missed a couple ;)
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by sva_ on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:04PM (#38564963)
A lot are actually missed by not getting a good photo and probably other reasons. I've seen the flashing light around 4 to 5 times already, but have only ever gotten 1 ticket (where they changed the speed from 50 to 30 and immediately put up a camera - bastards.)
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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by jacquesm on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:11PM (#38565006)
They probably get great photos but the camera may be set to the actual limit whereas the fine only comes when you exceed that limit by a certain amount.
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