They're not "committing" to anything. This isn't "We WILL collect this revenue", this is "This is the revenue we THINK we'll collect." It would help, before formulating conspiracy theories, to understand how governments actually work. It's not like in the movies.
They're looking at the historical data and projecting what will happen based on that data, which they have to do, by law. Almost invariably, these estimates are wrong, usually by a wide margin. Just ask the MBTA.
There is no way to guarantee a certain amount of money from parking tickets. Police officers do not have "quotas" of tickets, not only because that's illegal but also because people inevitably contest these tickets, which costs more. The more people contesting the tickets, the more money it costs. You'd be surprised how often a city actually loses money when it issues a parking ticket.
I wonder, did your look at the city's budget happen to take a look at what they expect traffic court costs to be? Betcha it wipes out most of those estimated ticket gains.
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They're looking at the historical data and projecting what will happen based on that data, which they have to do, by law. Almost invariably, these estimates are wrong, usually by a wide margin. Just ask the MBTA.
There is no way to guarantee a certain amount of money from parking tickets. Police officers do not have "quotas" of tickets, not only because that's illegal but also because people inevitably contest these tickets, which costs more. The more people contesting the tickets, the more money it costs. You'd be surprised how often a city actually loses money when it issues a parking ticket.
I wonder, did your look at the city's budget happen to take a look at what they expect traffic court costs to be? Betcha it wipes out most of those estimated ticket gains.