Washington DC Speed Cameras Hit $100m In Revenue
The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department collected a record $3.3 million in fines from its automated speed cameras in March -- increasing the five-year-old program's total revenue to more than $100 million. The program began with six cruisers outfitted with cameras and now has 10 cameras at fixed locations and 12 camera-equipped vehicles rotating through nearly 80 enforcement zones. The speed-camera program is part of the District's expanding automated traffic-enforcement strategy that has collected more than $138 million since 1999. The city's 49 red-light cameras have generated more than $35 million, including $5.2 million last year.
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Great job raping the citizens of money YAY!
Has the crime rate gone down now that DC has tons of money for more police?
I just received a $200 ticket from one of these DC cameras. I find it to be unethical to receive a ticket in the mail. I have been driving for 23 years and this is my first ticket. I obey traffic laws and typically I am the minivan that all the other cars on the highway are passing out. Apparently this ticket was given to me on the SE/SW Freeway @ 9th street. It says the posted speed limit is 40 and I was doing 59. I must have not seen that sign because I always drive around 60 on the highway. The picture they sent me shows a 3 lane highway with no other cars around. How could the speed limit be 40? It seems like a trap to me. I wish a police officer pulled me over so I could have at least discussed this with him. Since I am not from the DC area at all, and was only visiting DC with my family I have no way of going to a hearing to argue my case. This is a travesty. This is the last time I will visit DC and support their local economy. You would think they would use some of that 100 million dollars to get the homeless off of every street corner.
I too received a ticket in the mail for driving 50 mph in a 40 on the SE.SW Freeway @ 9th street entrance. Why is a 40 mph speed limit on a freeway? Free money, that's why!!
Thanks a bunch for taking more money from me while visiting your city plagued with inadequate parking and mediocre restaurants.
Come to our nation's capital so we can screw you over and over again.
I also received a ticket in the mail for doing 50 in the 40 mph zone on the SE.SW freeway at 9th street. It's some bullshit if you ask me
SE SW -- I received a ticket in the same location 61 over 40 but there is a car in front of me in the picture. Was I going fast or was the other driver?
same location se/sw 56 in a 40. I thought it was posted 45... but then ITS A HIGHWAY!!!! 50mph should be min.
Same place - ticketed for 40 mph on the freeway. What a ripoff.
same location, I was supposedly going 60mph in 40mph...$100 fine. How do I know it's true...they could be printing random speed:
"As of last month, the District's private photo enforcement contractors had mailed a total of 4,019,023 tickets worth a total of $305 million. That is equivalent to one ticket not just for every resident of Washington, DC, but for every single resident of the District plus surrounding Virginia and Maryland suburbs."
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2890.asp
I would like to protest this so-called 40 mph speed limit on the SE/SW highway. Really, how would one know its 40 mph on a 3 lane highway!! And I like how they now have signs stating this but no cautious that its photo enforced. Supposely I was going 51 mph, I remember that day and I was not in any rush or trying to speed. This is just a very insane speed limit for a 3 lane highway and there is no option on it to protest on this ticket either!
I received a ticket notice from my rental car company charging me an admin fee and saying DC police would be issuing a direct citation via mail. What kind of due process is this? I was visiting from Houston and can't remember a time I got over 30 mph driving around anywhere in that city. What a ripoff!!!
I was a visitor to DC for 4 days contributing about $1500 to the area's economy. And yet I receive from my rental company a $30 processing fee and a citation that is due to arrive shortly. What kind of lame-brain process is this?
We voted down mobile camera citing in Hawaii. If there is another vehicle in the image, Ill contest. I'll let you know.
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