Oakland: Single Traffic Camera Generates More Than $3 Million a Year for City

February 6th, 2012

Via: San Francisco Chronicle:

California has the most expensive red-light camera tickets in the world – the fine is so steep that one camera in Oakland generates more than $3 million a year – and a Fremont man is launching a protest group to do something about that.

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Anyone in California snapped violating a red light pays a fine of $480, and according to the traffic-watch site TheNewspaper.com, no other jurisdiction anywhere has a tab that high. The second-highest fine in the United States is $250, and it is usually more like $100.

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One Response to “Oakland: Single Traffic Camera Generates More Than $3 Million a Year for City”

  1. prov6yahoo says:
    February 6, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    Here in Texas you do not actually have to pay camera tickets because it is a civil penalty and not criminal. This means they have to serve you to get you into court, so you just don’t answer your door if you do not know who it is. They don’t serve people here for this anyway from what I have seen. The myth here is that you won’t be able to get your car registered if you don’t pay these, and everyone and their dog will tell you that is true in an attempt to get you to just pay the fine without question. It is not true, because I registered my car over a year after receiving one of these tickets. Reason being that the state registers your car, and these tickets are from the city. The state wants nothing to do with the city’s problems.

    Now it may be a different case in the socialist state of California.

    The thing to take away from this is to never believe anything you are told, and to actually test the supposed rules.

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