[drew]

Great work! I’d love to see these damn things banned. But the one thing that really got my attention is that a ticket costs 40 bucks? In LA they’re 400 to 500!

[hattend]

LA / California have bigger deficits to finance.

[blackdog]

Ticket prices are an interesting phenom. If the ticket is priced at the same or less than a person's daily wage, they will pay it in most cases unless points put them in peril.

Increased ticket rates do not alway's go step function to increased collections. Of course outrageous ticket costs just create more clerk of courts jobs, enrich collection agencies, and increase labor and data entry costs at all levels of the DMV and court system.

So it's a balance of what your end game is?