Provincial traffic fine revenue has been distributed to the municipalities for 2007 and in the north; residents of the Northcoast are heavy contributors to the pool.
Prince Rupert ranked third in the North after Prince George and Fort St. John, in the revenue collected from traffic infractions. Making for a 264,038 dollar injection of revenue for the city, which according to a chart provided on the Opinion 250 website, was used for the Municipal Integrated Road safety unit as well as Victim services in this community.
Prince Rupert ranked third in the North after Prince George and Fort St. John, in the revenue collected from traffic infractions. Making for a 264,038 dollar injection of revenue for the city, which according to a chart provided on the Opinion 250 website, was used for the Municipal Integrated Road safety unit as well as Victim services in this community.
Terrace the next closest municipality to Rupert, collected significantly less revenue, providing only 191,645 dollars for that city, money which they used to make traffic crossings safer in two key locations there.
The program was changed in 2004 to forward more of the money collected from traffic offenses back to the communities that the infractions took place in. Since that time the province has returned close to 200 million dollars back into municipal coffers.
The program was changed in 2004 to forward more of the money collected from traffic offenses back to the communities that the infractions took place in. Since that time the province has returned close to 200 million dollars back into municipal coffers.
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It's at least one tax if you will, that the drivers of the Northcoast for the most part, have control over. One directly based on the decisions that they make while on the roads.
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