The fines go direct to central government rather than local.
UK isn’t as car centric as US and we have a (not great but better than US) public transport system.
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Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 3 days ago
Does the UK have speed traps? Towns and villages padding their budgets by lowering speed limits just to increase speeding fines?
Technoworcester@feddit.uk 3 days ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
No because towns don’t get to set their own speed limits and also fines wouldn’t be paid to the town it would just be paid to the police in general. It all goes into a big pot of money for the entire country.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Towns and villages are funded by taxation and government grants. It is weird to us that your towns get to hire their own police and make up fines like they do.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 3 days ago
If you think arbitrary fines are bad, you should look up asset forfeiture.