Interesting - the key point being the money. Here in NC, cameras were installed with the understanding that something like 75% of proceeds would go to county education funding. The counties understood that to mean 75% after costs - paying the contractors who ran the system and billed the fines - but the education bureaucracies wanted 75% of gross receipts and sued.
In some places, the cameras are still sitting there, but they’re not turned on ... and the money has gone down the schools’ bottomless pit of declining results at higher costs.
WOW....astonishing that such a misunderstanding occurred over such a very basic structural point of the agreement.
It seems that once again, the losers will be the taxpayers and the kids, as I’m sure that whatever bureaucrats were responsible will get raises and promotions instead of being shown the door (at minimum) as they should have been.
On an only marginally-related note, as it relates to driving, a couple of weeks ago I returned from a 10k mile stoatmobile tour from Seattle, through the South and back again. I LOVED the Great Smoky Mountains of NC and I do hope to visit again. The trip made me truly fall in love with the South even though I have always been a big fan. Even though there is tremendous natural beauty, rich history, magical culinary delights, gorgeous architecture and much more, I will surely be visiting again because of the tremendous warmth and friendliness of Southerners. The difference is truly remarkable and really made me not want to return home. Southern Hospitality is very real and it makes a HUGE improvement upon the quality of life in a given region.
“sigh”