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Cash cow?

In fact, they’re probably going to draw the lines on more streets, making life even more difficult for the cycler and pedestrian.

And the situation is going to get worse before it gets better, if it gets better, ever. When they’re money driven, you see, matters often become unreasonable and difficult to argue, for or against, just as the parking fares themselves can be unreasonably exorbitant.

However, for now, let’s be satisfied with “cash cow” itself and be happy that we’ve got another useful expression under our belt.

And here are media examples of “cash cow”:

1. HIGHWAYS chiefs in Herts have failed to hit a deadline set by roads minister and Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning to publish data about speed cameras.

Herts County Council was told to reveal accident and prosecution rates at camera spots to show which are reducing crashes and which are merely making money.

So far 75 authorities across the country have published the information but another 75 failed to do so by last week’s deadline.

Mr Penning said: “Herts is one of the ones that haven’t. I’ve said publish by the end of September otherwise I will be out there saying: ‘Why aren’t you being honest with motorists about what’s going on?’”

The minister said the data collected so far showed the majority of cameras were ‘cash cows’.

“At the moment it looks like the largest group is where there were no accidents before the cameras have been installed and there’s still no accidents but there are lots of fines,” Mr Penning said.