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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At current staffing (and desire...) levels, the city can't boot enough people.

The mayor's new budget includes a lot of money for new traffic cameras, and a little more money for boot crews.  I sense no desire from DPW to actually boot more people (nor do I think they mayor wants it).  So she essentially wants to raise taxes only on city residents.

Compared to writing tickets, booting and possibly eventually taking a car requires a lot of man power for little payoff.  Easier to write a ticket someone pays than attach a boot, notify the owner, etc. etc.[/quote]

Wrong. There is big money in booting cars. If the deadbeat doesn't pay you just auction off the car. Even bigger payoff.

Also first and foremost this should really be about safety not money. Getting crazy commuters to stop speeding on small residential streets should be the goal in of itself.[/quote]

If this was such an easy solution, as you suggest, the city would have done this already. That it hasn't is a sign that DC knows it cannot simply boot its way out of the problem, because it's not practical and not cost-effective.

The solution is to negotiate with Maryland and Virginia so that their drivers must pay their camera tickets. As it stands now, the cameras are powerless against them and they know this, so why should they bother following basic traffic rules.[/quote]

[b]DC has no power to negotiate with MD and VA either.[/b] Anything the DC Council does can be overridden by Congress, and guess who has votes in Congress and DC doesn't?[/quote]

That's simply not true. DC *does* have reciprocity agreements with Maryland and Virginia, but only for tickets issued by police officers.

https://dcist.com/story/21/10/14/dc-didnt-ask-northam-and-hogan-to-help-crack-down-on-unpaid-tickets-despite-initial-claims-it-did/[/quote]

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