Tell me you are a Swiss Canton, without telling me you are a Swiss Canton.
Apparently they don’t want to be outdone by the others.
google translation:
***Avalanche of fines arriving in Ticino***
*SUNDAY / 2022 has not yet begun but the authorities have already decided that road fines of at least 65,000 francs a day will have to be issued in our canton – The total receipts over the year will exceed 23 million francs.*
*2022 has not yet begun. But the authorities have already decided that road fines of at least 65,000 francs a day will have to be issued every day in Ticino. For a total of collections that will exceed 23 million francs over the course of the year.*
*«It is immoral to put the entries in the radar fines in the estimates – thunders Andrea Censi, president of the Ticino motorists’ front -. The purpose of speed checks must not be to make cash, to achieve certain financial objectives, but on the contrary to guarantee road safety ».*
*The canton wants half a million more*
*Yet, as every year, also for 2022 the canton and the municipalities have already estimated in the budget phase how much they plan to collect thanks to road fines. Understandably, the canton intends to play the lion’s share. On page 71 of the financial data of the 2022 budget we read that the traffic fines should yield 1.25 million francs, the fines from the mobile radar controls 2.25 million francs and the fines from the fixed and semi-stationary radar controls even 12, 25 million francs. In total they make 15.75 million, half more than what was recorded in the 2021 budget.*
*The city of Lugano, on the other hand, has entered in the budget for 2022, under the heading “fines”, an amount unchanged compared to 2021: 4.35 million francs. This is – it must be reiterated – a prediction that could also be disproved by the facts. In 2020, for example, the city collected over one million fewer fines than expected, to be exact 3,319,427 francs. Evidently, in the hot months of the pandemic, the police had nothing to do but chase off infringing motorists.*
*Locarno also thinks big*
*But next year everything should return to normal, as confirmed by the estimates of the other major centers in the canton. The city of Locarno expects to collect 1,482,000 francs from road traffic fines, almost double compared to the infamous 2020, when unruly motorists earned just 746,661 francs. Next year, the police are expected to return to full control, at an even higher level than in the pre-pandemic period. Suffice it to say that in 2019 Locarno had collected “only” 1,124,873 francs in fines. Next year could be better, or worse, depending on your point of view.*
*In Bellinzona it is estimated that fines of 1.125 million francs will be imposed, exactly the same amount that had been estimated for 2021. It is not known whether the forecast will be confirmed for the current year. It is known, however, that in past years the income from fines had always been more modest. In 2020, Bellinzona had collected just over 871,000 francs in fines, the previous year 1,037,322 francs and in 2018 “only” 854,174 francs. Hopefully, or badly, next year may turn out to be richer.*
*More moderate*
*Mendrisiotto On the other hand, Mendrisio tries to set more moderate objectives. After the fines in 2020 had brought in 380,160 francs compared to the 650,000 francs registered in the budget, already the following year the town hall had lowered the bar. For 2021, a collection of half a million was expected and is still expected. The same amount that was entered under the item “revenues from police fines” also in the 2022 budget.*
*Even more prudent is the Municipality of Chiasso, which for the next year expects to collect 480,000 francs in fines, or less than the 530,000 francs included in the 2021 budget. Here too, it was the year 2020 that suggested moderating ambitions. only 419,000 francs entered the cash register instead of the estimated 530,000 francs.*
*We did not go to sift through the estimates of the smaller municipalities. But it is enough to add up the amounts foreseen by the canton and the five main municipalities to exceed the figure of 23 million francs in fines. That is to say 65,000 francs in fines a day. Or, if you want to see it from another angle, 67 francs in fines for every Ticino citizen, including infants.*
*”Little transparency”*
*”When it comes to fines and radar it is not always easy to determine when repression is taking place and when prevention – observes Gianmarco Balemi, director of the Ticino section of the ACS -. Let me explain: on some stations there is no discussion, they are really positioned in an intelligent way, on others some questions arise. Certainly a part of the revenues from cantonal radars is used for prevention campaigns and road maintenance works and in this context the system stands up. The situation is different at the municipal level, where we do not know exactly what the use of the proceeds of the radar fines is ».*
*A scarce transparency towards which Censi uses even more explicit tones. «Often and gladly we attend budget games – affirms the president of the FAT -. In other words, we do not know where the part of the proceeds of the fines that is not used for road safety ends up. What expenses does it cover? For which budget item are you making a stopgap? We need more transparency. Road safety must be guaranteed, there is no doubt about this. But punishing motorists for other purposes is wrong ”.*
*”More crackdown on mobile phones”*
*Yet, with all the caveats of the case, motorists themselves recognize that police checks are necessary. «Sometimes prevention is not enough – continues Balemi -. I am referring in particular to what I call a real plague: the use of a mobile phone while driving. Prevention is not enough here. We need more repression. A general discourse should be made, also involving car manufacturers who have the means to inhibit driving messages. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) should also do more ».*
*Always with a view to increasing road safety, to the benefit of all users. «At the level of fatal accidents it must be said that in recent years they have been decreasing, despite the fact that traffic has increased – continues Balemi -. The work of prevention and repression in this case has therefore worked and is working. However, the number of other accidents did not decrease. I am thinking, for example, of those who see electric bicycles involved: here we are witnessing a real surge. It is a worrying phenomenon that should be tackled with adequate measures “.*
This has been a plague in some other countries. It reached the point of municipalities trying to trick the drivers, via odd combinations of signs, into losing track of the limit before the radar. Empirically, this is solvable by a law specifying that 100% of the fines needs to go into road safety expenses.
How is having a quota in line with “prevention”?
It’s a pretty easy ‘tax’ to avoid.
I dunno, ticino always seemed reasonable with their radars.
In Lucerne, Züriche you find one evere 2meters.
Good for you guys, i hope they do something good with the money 😉
I know in Vaud, if they haven’t reached their projected “budget” a the end of the month, thw police drop everything and start combing parking lots to find people to fine. Source : a friend working in the police.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they start putting up “trick” radars just to ambush people for the extra cash.
It’s not a quota but an estimation for the budget.
Basically they just estimate a certain revenue from fines which the municipalities can then use in their budget for the next year.So the title is quite misleading, or actually, completely wrong.
>*it* – Eppure, come ogni anno, anche per il 2022 il Cantone e i Comuni hanno già stimato in fase di preventivo quanto prevedono di incassare grazie alle multe stradali.
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>*en* – […] As every year, also for the year 2022 the Canton and Municipalities have already estimated in the budget phase how much they expect to collect from road fines.
This canton is going to shit. First they tear down a building without telling anything to anyone and we are just supposed to deal with it. Then a politician dies and people go on tv blaming the vaccine. This morning i wake up and folks i used to smoke with are on the first page of a newspaper because of violence at an anti-covid demonstration. I load up social media and a high-ranking politician is arguing that society is going to shit because the number of people praying daily has decreased. Now this.
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Tell me you are a Swiss Canton, without telling me you are a Swiss Canton.
Apparently they don’t want to be outdone by the others.
google translation:
***Avalanche of fines arriving in Ticino***
*SUNDAY / 2022 has not yet begun but the authorities have already decided that road fines of at least 65,000 francs a day will have to be issued in our canton – The total receipts over the year will exceed 23 million francs.*
*2022 has not yet begun. But the authorities have already decided that road fines of at least 65,000 francs a day will have to be issued every day in Ticino. For a total of collections that will exceed 23 million francs over the course of the year.*
*«It is immoral to put the entries in the radar fines in the estimates – thunders Andrea Censi, president of the Ticino motorists’ front -. The purpose of speed checks must not be to make cash, to achieve certain financial objectives, but on the contrary to guarantee road safety ».*
*The canton wants half a million more*
*Yet, as every year, also for 2022 the canton and the municipalities have already estimated in the budget phase how much they plan to collect thanks to road fines. Understandably, the canton intends to play the lion’s share. On page 71 of the financial data of the 2022 budget we read that the traffic fines should yield 1.25 million francs, the fines from the mobile radar controls 2.25 million francs and the fines from the fixed and semi-stationary radar controls even 12, 25 million francs. In total they make 15.75 million, half more than what was recorded in the 2021 budget.*
*The city of Lugano, on the other hand, has entered in the budget for 2022, under the heading “fines”, an amount unchanged compared to 2021: 4.35 million francs. This is – it must be reiterated – a prediction that could also be disproved by the facts. In 2020, for example, the city collected over one million fewer fines than expected, to be exact 3,319,427 francs. Evidently, in the hot months of the pandemic, the police had nothing to do but chase off infringing motorists.*
*Locarno also thinks big*
*But next year everything should return to normal, as confirmed by the estimates of the other major centers in the canton. The city of Locarno expects to collect 1,482,000 francs from road traffic fines, almost double compared to the infamous 2020, when unruly motorists earned just 746,661 francs. Next year, the police are expected to return to full control, at an even higher level than in the pre-pandemic period. Suffice it to say that in 2019 Locarno had collected “only” 1,124,873 francs in fines. Next year could be better, or worse, depending on your point of view.*
*In Bellinzona it is estimated that fines of 1.125 million francs will be imposed, exactly the same amount that had been estimated for 2021. It is not known whether the forecast will be confirmed for the current year. It is known, however, that in past years the income from fines had always been more modest. In 2020, Bellinzona had collected just over 871,000 francs in fines, the previous year 1,037,322 francs and in 2018 “only” 854,174 francs. Hopefully, or badly, next year may turn out to be richer.*
*More moderate*
*Mendrisiotto On the other hand, Mendrisio tries to set more moderate objectives. After the fines in 2020 had brought in 380,160 francs compared to the 650,000 francs registered in the budget, already the following year the town hall had lowered the bar. For 2021, a collection of half a million was expected and is still expected. The same amount that was entered under the item “revenues from police fines” also in the 2022 budget.*
*Even more prudent is the Municipality of Chiasso, which for the next year expects to collect 480,000 francs in fines, or less than the 530,000 francs included in the 2021 budget. Here too, it was the year 2020 that suggested moderating ambitions. only 419,000 francs entered the cash register instead of the estimated 530,000 francs.*
*We did not go to sift through the estimates of the smaller municipalities. But it is enough to add up the amounts foreseen by the canton and the five main municipalities to exceed the figure of 23 million francs in fines. That is to say 65,000 francs in fines a day. Or, if you want to see it from another angle, 67 francs in fines for every Ticino citizen, including infants.*
*”Little transparency”*
*”When it comes to fines and radar it is not always easy to determine when repression is taking place and when prevention – observes Gianmarco Balemi, director of the Ticino section of the ACS -. Let me explain: on some stations there is no discussion, they are really positioned in an intelligent way, on others some questions arise. Certainly a part of the revenues from cantonal radars is used for prevention campaigns and road maintenance works and in this context the system stands up. The situation is different at the municipal level, where we do not know exactly what the use of the proceeds of the radar fines is ».*
*A scarce transparency towards which Censi uses even more explicit tones. «Often and gladly we attend budget games – affirms the president of the FAT -. In other words, we do not know where the part of the proceeds of the fines that is not used for road safety ends up. What expenses does it cover? For which budget item are you making a stopgap? We need more transparency. Road safety must be guaranteed, there is no doubt about this. But punishing motorists for other purposes is wrong ”.*
*”More crackdown on mobile phones”*
*Yet, with all the caveats of the case, motorists themselves recognize that police checks are necessary. «Sometimes prevention is not enough – continues Balemi -. I am referring in particular to what I call a real plague: the use of a mobile phone while driving. Prevention is not enough here. We need more repression. A general discourse should be made, also involving car manufacturers who have the means to inhibit driving messages. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) should also do more ».*
*Always with a view to increasing road safety, to the benefit of all users. «At the level of fatal accidents it must be said that in recent years they have been decreasing, despite the fact that traffic has increased – continues Balemi -. The work of prevention and repression in this case has therefore worked and is working. However, the number of other accidents did not decrease. I am thinking, for example, of those who see electric bicycles involved: here we are witnessing a real surge. It is a worrying phenomenon that should be tackled with adequate measures “.*
This has been a plague in some other countries. It reached the point of municipalities trying to trick the drivers, via odd combinations of signs, into losing track of the limit before the radar. Empirically, this is solvable by a law specifying that 100% of the fines needs to go into road safety expenses.
How is having a quota in line with “prevention”?
It’s a pretty easy ‘tax’ to avoid.
I dunno, ticino always seemed reasonable with their radars.
In Lucerne, Züriche you find one evere 2meters.
Good for you guys, i hope they do something good with the money 😉
I know in Vaud, if they haven’t reached their projected “budget” a the end of the month, thw police drop everything and start combing parking lots to find people to fine. Source : a friend working in the police.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they start putting up “trick” radars just to ambush people for the extra cash.
It’s not a quota but an estimation for the budget.
Basically they just estimate a certain revenue from fines which the municipalities can then use in their budget for the next year.So the title is quite misleading, or actually, completely wrong.
>*it* – Eppure, come ogni anno, anche per il 2022 il Cantone e i Comuni hanno già stimato in fase di preventivo quanto prevedono di incassare grazie alle multe stradali.
>
>*en* – […] As every year, also for the year 2022 the Canton and Municipalities have already estimated in the budget phase how much they expect to collect from road fines.
This canton is going to shit. First they tear down a building without telling anything to anyone and we are just supposed to deal with it. Then a politician dies and people go on tv blaming the vaccine. This morning i wake up and folks i used to smoke with are on the first page of a newspaper because of violence at an anti-covid demonstration. I load up social media and a high-ranking politician is arguing that society is going to shit because the number of people praying daily has decreased. Now this.
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For the love of god stop the ride