Are they allowed to put infants in their baskets? What about blowing red lights at full speed? What about kids on bikes without helmets? Is that ok? What if the kid is riding on the handle bars? What about e-bikes going 30mph on a sidewalk? Is that allowed? What about bikes with no lights riding at night? |
| It's hilarious that one of the highest grossing traffic cameras in the city is designed to catch people speeding to...the emergency room at Sibley hospital. WTF. |
It's sickening. |
Your trauma is DDOT's opportunity. |
Yield yes, but that doesn't mean they get to blow through a stop sign when they do not have the right of way. |
Suburban drivers who are too inept to set camera alerts on your navigation app, too ignorant of the city to know the fixed and unchanging locations of the cameras, and too pigheaded to keep your speed within 10mph of posted limits finally have a candidate who is standing up for their selfish interests! Too bad they can’t vote in DC elections and that those that can will choose someone who will implement some actual enforcement to bring back a modicum of safety to our streets. |
Yes. Cyclists are required to yield to other vehicles and pedestrians at the intersection, assuming they are also following road laws. |
And that’s what there is an appeals process for: https://dmv.dc.gov/service/contest-parking-and-photo-enforcement-tickets If you have a legitimate reason to speed, you can state your case and the ticket will almost certainly be forgiven. |
It looks like the number of deaths went way up when the DC Council removed the last remaining consequences for not paying camera fines (and when MPD stopped doing traffic enforcement) and then can come down when they put some of those back in (via the STEER Act). It shouldn’t be surprising that merely taking photos of speeding cars doesn’t improve traffic safety, but that enforcing fines causes at least some drivers to adjust their behavior. |
Source? Because this is all a bunch of lies. Most tickets are paid. |
Wrong. Look at the stats. The city forgives very few tickets. |
Maybe that is because very few speeders have a valid reason for speeding? |
The sources have been posted ad nauseum. You refuse to engage with them and then pretend they don’t exist. Almost every serious study shows that sanctioning speeding reduces average speeds, which reduces the number of crashes and the proportion of crashes that are deadly. It’s very well-established and not something that any serious person would take issue with. Taking a contrary view is kind of like maintaining that plants don’t need sunshine to grow, that cigarettes don’t cause cancer, that binge drinking during the first trimester doesn’t harm fetal development, or that toxic sludge is great for marine life. |
Ok, so when did the explosion in ticketing begin to reduce traffic deaths? Which year? Here's the number of speeding-driver deaths in DC from the past decade: 2024: 20 2023: 22 2022: 9 2021: 12 2020: 15 2019: 10 2018: 9 2017: 12 2016: 8 2015: 11 2014: 12 2013: 11 |