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Reading with first red route?
Topic Started: 13 Jul 2015, 09:02 PM (368 Views)
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Reading could get its first red route as council tries to save money

The first red route in Reading could be set up in a move to generate income for the cash-strapped council. Drivers who stop on the double red lines would face fixed fines. A report into the idea, along with other schemes like raising charges for second and third parking permits, said the red route could start in 2017 and bring in £100,000 in its first year. It comes after the council revealed on Friday up to 50 jobs could be lost as its budget is reduced by £39m.

The money-saving plans will go before a council committee on 20 July. The double red lines, which can only currently be found in London and the West Midlands, would be introduced along the number 17 bus route. CCTV cameras would be used to enforce the restriction, although the level of fine is yet to be revealed.
But the report also warns: "Significant opposition may result in political pressure to drop the proposal."

How can it bring in " £100,000 in its first year". Surely if you know you'll get a fine you are not going to stop there? Or is it for unsuspecting tourists?



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It is rather sinister how these kinds of regulations are drafted with the express purpose of catching people out to make a bit of money off them... It'd be one thing if they said 'we believe this will alleviate traffic problems (or safety issues), but to come out and say that, specifically, they are doing it to make money is immoral. I know this isn't the States, but that happens there too, of course, and there was recently a case in one of the states (Missouri, I think) where the cops were supposed to pull over a certain amount of people each year to boost the municipal budget. They ended up mostly pulling over racial minorities though and so it was scrapped. I'm not saying that this regulation in Reading will target minorities, but the point raised in the Missouri (if it was them) case was that a city should not use the enforcement of laws to raise money.
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You guys obviously haven't frequented the Oxford road recently. I'd welcome this idea!
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14 Jul 2015, 01:43 AM
It is rather sinister how these kinds of regulations are drafted with the express purpose of catching people out to make a bit of money off them... It'd be one thing if they said 'we believe this will alleviate traffic problems (or safety issues), but to come out and say that, specifically, they are doing it to make money is immoral. I know this isn't the States, but that happens there too, of course, and there was recently a case in one of the states (Missouri, I think) where the cops were supposed to pull over a certain amount of people each year to boost the municipal budget. They ended up mostly pulling over racial minorities though and so it was scrapped. I'm not saying that this regulation in Reading will target minorities, but the point raised in the Missouri (if it was them) case was that a city should not use the enforcement of laws to raise money.
The use of 'speed traps' in the USA (mostly rural, but some urban areas as well) is a long-established but frowned-on tradition here. There has been a good industry of 'speed trap maps', highlighting mostly small towns near heavily traveled highways that have been notorious for the practice; in some cases, expanding the town limits to include a short stretch of the highway to achieve added revenues.
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