You can pull 100k reporting 2-4 cars every day 365 days a year.
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$71k if you take weekends off
What about 5 to 7 cars 4 days a week? I can't math
$100,000/yr * [1 yr/365 days] * [1day/3 reports] = $91/report. I assume the number is actually a round $100 and OP rounded down, so 6 cars/day * $100/car * 4 days/week * 52 weeks/year = $124,800/year, or at $91/car, ~$113,000/year
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The quota of complaints that was actually followed through / taken action on was similar to stuff actually recycled from collected recycling, both rates are below well 10% (in Germany).
Under the Citizens Air Complaint Program, they can record idling trucks or buses, report them and keep 25% of any fines, which typically range from $350 to $600.
This seems pretty common sense.
I mean, bare minimum that’s over $80 per report. Even if you only get one per hour, that’s still fantastic money by most metrics. That’s like $14k per month, or ~$170k per year. And that’s just the bare minimum fine.
Per fine, not report. So there's the "did they actually get fined" portion of it. But still, That's a nice bonus if only one report goes through a week, for maybe an extra hour of time spent if you regularly bike commute, walk, etc.
There’s a street I cross in the morning that becomes a clearway during commute hours. I take a grim satisfaction in watching the tow trucks take away yank tanks, because of course their humans believe the rules apply to everyone but them.
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What in the upside down hellscape am I reading here?
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I would like to think that if my phone were to slice through the earth (and survive) that someone in Australia could read this right side up.. but it wouldn’t work out apparently. Just read up on antipodal points.. pretty cool. Basically towns/cities linked like that aren’t numerous because the damn 71% water thing…
yank tanks SUV's?
A yank tank / wank tank is any SUV or pickup that is larger than the tanks we used to beat the Nazis (not joking)
lol that's great
I wish there was something like this for reporting people parked in bike lanes.
The cops won't ticket themselves.
That’s why this system is great though. Citizens report violations directly to the city and bypass the cops who never enforce these kinds of rules or violate them themselves. The city could fine the cops. Whether or not that happens is a different issue
They should, they'd triple their income.
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