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Raffles
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PostPosted: 19:49 - 01 Aug 2010    Post subject: Cash cows to be culled Reply with quote
''Safety cameras'' that are supposedly all about ''safety'' and ''safe driving/riding'' are being switched off in Oxfordshire because it is no longer financially viable to operate them.
It would seem that it was all about the money after all.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1299356/The-big-switch-As-midnight-tolls-end-speed-cameras-county-Britain-soon-follow.html
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PostPosted: 07:50 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Only about the 3rd post on this......

Remember this is the Daily Fail that has posted it......

If they were such cash cows then they would not need funding Rolling Eyes

Just a heads up but in Leeds and I believe West Yorks they are staying.... Laughing
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PostPosted: 11:53 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought this was going to be about the milk being sold from Genetically modified cows. Apparently its a big no no.

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Raffles
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PostPosted: 13:08 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry kids but I have been overseas for a couple of weeks and didn't realise that this was an old story that had already been covered. Oxfordshire's speed camera policies aren't front page news in California.
The cash cow terminology is however justified. Many County Councils were paid huge swathes of money to install and maintain these cameras by the previous government. Since the new coalition took over and realised how skint the country is this funding for the County Councils has stopped. Seeing as there's no longer any money in it for them the County Councils are now putting ''safety matters'' onto a back burner.
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PostPosted: 13:18 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Im a little bit gutted about it... what am i going to do with the used tyres and old fuel i have been saving for my own yearly camera cull. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 13:56 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can still use it, it's not like they'll be taking the cameras down yet. Better still, pop over the border to Northamptonshire, there's still plenty working here.
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PostPosted: 20:29 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Raffles wrote:
Many County Councils were paid huge swathes of money to install and maintain these cameras by the previous government. .


If you read the original article, the reason they are cutting them is that the council is cutting the funding to the safety group who run them.......
So because they are losing 600K, they can't afford to keep them running....

Some cash cow that is Laughing

I think a lot of the cash cow figures were from people ( anti camera groups ) taking the stats and presenting them in the way they wanted them to appear. If these were really making the council so much money. Do you think the council would be looking to cut the funding, knowing for well that they would be losing a massive income....
They may be stupid, but not that stupid.... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 21:29 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 21:39 - 02 Aug 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
iooi wrote:

I think a lot of the cash cow figures were from people ( anti camera groups ) taking the stats and presenting them in the way they wanted them to appear.


Not really. The camera groups made shed loads from them when they could just claim back all the proceeds from them. It was a pyramid financing scheme, but that changed a few years ago (hence new cameras stopped being put up, and mobile vans reduced in use), and now have been changed again.

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