Effective response to employee delays

In my work, the management decided to effectively combat delays, although I will not say that everything was critical, in my department there were a total of 2-3 delays a month at all. They imposed fines:
Delay from 1 to 10 minutes 500 rubles
Delay of 11-30 minutes 1000 rubles
Delay of more than 30 minutes 5000 rubles.

At the same time, no matter if you slept or fell under the action of unbearable forces, the penalty will still be applied. The management believes that you have to anticipate all situations.
I live in a sleeping area and in case of an emergency the area gets into traffic jams. You can go, but for a long time.

So it happened to me somehow shortly after the introduction of the penalty system - an accident at one of the intersections colored the streets in red color on the navigator screen. I am standing in a traffic jamming and looking at the increasing time of arrival at work. In 10 minutes, the working day will start, and I have only walked a little bit of the road. And the navigator shows that the time of my journey has already accumulated not only on the penalty, but on the maximum. Until the working day comes, I call the boss and say, say, I have an emergency, I tearfully ask for my account today. In this regard, the boss always goes to meet us, you can write a statement in the back. She got good, turned around and went home.

My daily salary is less than the threatening fine. The effectiveness of the penalty system is simply overwhelming - it is cheaper for the employee to take a break and rest a day than to "pay" for the opportunity to work and bring profit to the company. But the leadership is enough - the delays have stopped. But, apparently, my scheme and other employees have been squeezed. The number of retreats increased. And I have been working out currencies from this realm of “efficiency and professionalism” over the last few days.