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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not clear to me why DC doesn't go gung-ho on booting and towing cars with tons of fines - especially if the car has MD or VA plates.

Take those cars to Blue Plains and have the drivers pay off their balance to get the car back. Can't pay? The vehicle goes up for auction.

The DC government is loath to actually enforce any of its traffic laws. That's why you're seeing traffic fatalities rise - bad drivers go unpunished and don't get their keys taken away. [/quote]

The city does boot and tow some vehicles, but not nearly enough. A few factors inhibit the city from doing more booting and towing.

First, the number of boot and tow crews is minimal. And IIRC Bowser tried to cut them entirely during her budget proposal this year.

Booting efficacy is lowered by the fact that boots can easily be removed. Apparently there are people offering removal services for hire or the affected car owners can simply follow directions provided by YouTube videos and so forth.

Towing cars across DC to the impound lots takes forever - an hour or two round trip - and this limits the number of vehicles that can be impounded.

At some point, the impound lots were also full because the city was not being very efficient in disposing of them. This may be fixed now, but if not all vehicles are successfully auctioned it doesn’t take much for the backlog to fill the lot.[/quote]

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