Towns and villages are funded by taxation and government grants. It is weird to us that your towns get to hire their own police and make up fines like they do.
No because towns don’t get to set their own speed limits and also fines wouldn’t be paid to the town it would just be paid to the police in general. It all goes into a big pot of money for the entire country.
Does the UK have speed traps? Towns and villages padding their budgets by lowering speed limits just to increase speeding fines?
Towns and villages are funded by taxation and government grants. It is weird to us that your towns get to hire their own police and make up fines like they do.
If you think arbitrary fines are bad, you should look up asset forfeiture.
No because towns don’t get to set their own speed limits and also fines wouldn’t be paid to the town it would just be paid to the police in general. It all goes into a big pot of money for the entire country.
The fines go direct to central government rather than local.
UK isn’t as car centric as US and we have a (not great but better than US) public transport system.