As a chauffeur, you know the nuisance: you drive too fast, get shown and then asked to pay. And one often wonders how much money cities make on speed cameras. A survey conducted by the traffic law working group of the German Bar Association (DAV) among major German cities now sheds light on the matter.
The 150 largest cities in Germany were surveyed. Replies were received from 45 cities, 29 of which agreed to the publication of data. The survey included, among other things, the number of speed cameras installed, the amount of speed camera revenues and their destination, as well as estimates of additional revenues from the new catalog of fines.
Eleven German cities are speed camera millionaires
The result: eleven German cities are “speed camera millionaires”. It means: in 2021 you received more than one million euros in fines for speed cameras. The undisputed Croesus is Hamburg: last year Raser threw around 18.8 million euros into the coffers of the Hanseatic city.
That’s twice the size of the following two cities combined. Because behind Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main (more than six million euros) and Chemnitz (approx. 3.8 million euros) are in second and third places at a reasonable distance.
Hamburg has the most speed cameras.
Also the speed camera millionaires are Schwerin, Salzgitter, Ludwigshafen, Nuremberg, Villingen-Schwenningen, Friedrichshafen, Pforzheim and Tübingen.
Hamburg has the most speed cameras
Another interesting result: The higher fines that drivers now have to pay have a financial impact. In 22 cities, income in the first half of 2022 increased significantly compared to the same period last year. Overall, the sum has doubled to 53 million euros, the survey found. As a result, there were already nine million speed cameras in the first half of 2022. In the corresponding period of the previous year it was just half with five cities.
