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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The contractor leasing the equipment is making $6.3 million over two years.

https://legiscan.com/DC/text/PR25-0202/id/2808247[/quote]

DC has a whole traffic camera industrial complex. It's like a cottage industry. [/quote]

The number of tickets being issued is ridiculous considering how small DC is. But the contractors (and their shareholders) make money. The politicians collect revenue, not to mention campaign contributions from the contractors. DDOT has a reason for its huge budget. The War on Bikes loonies enjoy average drivers being carpet bombed with tickets that, probably in the vast majority of cases, no human cop would ever issue. [/quote]

It’s voluntary.[/quote]

They act like people are getting nabbed for 1 over. You have an 11mph buffer. That's almost a 50% increase over 25mph roads, and more than a 50% over 20mph roads. [/quote]

Almost half the tickets aren't for speeding. Also, did you see how many tickets are being issued? 3.3 million? That doesn't seem kind of insane given there aren't even that all that many people who drive here. [/quote]

1.6 million 11mph+ speeding tickets are insane, but I imagine we think that for different reasons.

We probably agree that we can't ticket drivers into obeying the law. i suspect we disagree on how to go forward as well. [/quote]

I mean, use your brain. If there were actually that many dangerous drivers, there would be an epidemic of crashes. Clearly that's not happening. Probably a lot of those tickets are a result of the city adopting absurdly low speed in limits in a lot of places. Obviously many people are not going to obey those. Those tickets are also issued regardless of the circumstances. You can be driving on a street at 6am on a Sunday morning, with literally no one else on the streets or sidewalks, and if you go 31 mph in some places, you get a ticket. That's just dumb. A lot of these tickets are also going to out of town visitors who are just driving like normal people. [/quote]

I'm sorry that you are so offended that the DC government sets speed limits to safeguard the welfare of DC residents. You are within your rights to feel that way, but most of the rest of us find it completely pathetic.

I've been pulled over a couple of times in Maryland in circumstances that I thought were ridiculous. I went to court and contested it. You have the same right to contest any tickets issued to you by the DC government.

But to pretend that DC's speed limits are some giant conspiracy - or are not informed by evidence - is very childish.[/quote]

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