http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/sep/04/late-delivery-stops-redflex/

Under the terms of Redflex’s current contract, the company – not the city – still owns all of the cameras and related equipment installed among 15 city intersections. The firm also collects 85 percent of monthly revenues generated, up to $4,500 per camera. Any monthly per-camera revenues beyond that are split 50-50 with the city.

Last year, Redflex earned $1,644,718.90 in Knoxville, and another $955,013.70 was generated for the city’s general fund.

there is much more in the article but here is one more small tidbit

There could, however, be more cameras to install. While Redflex’s contract is limited to 15 intersections, the new RFP contemplates camera enforcement at 20 to 25 locations.

Georgia-based Lasercraft and Germany’s Traffipax both succeeded in ensuring their bids arrived on time and the city will choose which of the two it prefers to take over the program.

Kizmet. (For Buddhists, read “Karma”).
Hilarious!
See? There is a God.

I’d like Karma to be more painful. Losing future revenue isn’t as good as having to refund all collected fees to date to the poor citizens who got caught in that unholy alliance of private enteprise and corrupt government.

(Alright, I have to admit it…I’d like it to be more painful than that – and I mean literally painful for the company owners, but that’s between me and my psychiatrist…)

The contract expires November 8. So after that date, yes, it will be safe to enter an intersection a split-second after the light turns red. Please note that the vast majority of tickets are not for “red light running” but technical violations that happen in the blink of an eye or right turns on red. Ka-ching.

Apparently, the FedEx truck missed the flight because it was the only one in the history of the company to obey all parking, speed and signal rules.

Seriously…why is it not that the municipality just purchases the cameras and they make money off what they sell?

Who/what companies get a cut of the money whatever they sell generate? And beyond that, why would any municipality wanna do it this way?

And beyond that, how does such a conflict of interest ever get approved…and then expanded?

Wouldn’t you assume that the city would keep the cameras running somehow? Like say allowing the company to refile and approving the tickets retroactively?

Hilarious!

See? There is a God.