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Originally Posted by AR_Six
As a deterrent, this is way out of whack with most traffic fines
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Stunting, which is a HUGE umbrella (donoughts, waving flags from cars, warning traffic of upcoming photo radar, whatever else the officer would like), is over $400. The Calgary noise by-law is $270. Don't forget traffic tickets carry demerits as well.
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Originally Posted by AR_Six
I would note that when they do check fares it's pretty obvious they're going to. Oh hey, a couple of transit cops standing on the station waiting to board. Fantastic, guess I'll buy a ticket, says the guy who hasn't bought one in 3 months. I've seen that twice.
That being said, how fast would you need to be speeding to get a $250 ticket? That's my issue here; it's unduly punitive, taken in context. As a deterrent, this is way out of whack with most traffic fines and it's aimed at people who take the train, which is a) a practice we should be encouraging and b) a group of people who by and large have less money than those of us with cars to drive. If they want to increase revenue for transit, bump up the cost of traffic violations and funnel some of the resulting revenue over to the transit system.
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About 40km over. I get that the human safety consequences are way higher for someone speeding vs skipping transit fare.
But you want a group who may or may not ever use public transit to subsidize those who do, because they may have a higher income, and because everybody should be using transit?
Why stop there? Parking longer than 2 hours in a 2 hour zone isn't going to kill anybody. Make parking tickets just a warning and increase fines for reckless driving. Make all those reckless drivers pay for new parkades. Drunk driving is worse than speeding. Lower speeding tickets and Make the fines for a DUI in the $100,000 Murder is way worse than speeding. Fine murderer's millions and abolish income tax!
(obviously a bit of hyperbole in those examples...)