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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you know there's almost no stop sign cameras west of the park? I wonder how that happens....[/quote]

There's 17 speed cameras in Ward 3. In Ward 7, there's almost 60.

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Listing this without listing data on accidents or fatalities isn’t that useful. 
Traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities are FAR higher in ward 7 than 3. This isn’t the racist “gotcha” that you think it is.

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[b]Where's the evidence that traffic cameras reduce accidents?[/b] DC has increasing ticketing by almost 10 times. Where's the corresponding reduction in traffic deaths? [/quote]

The evidence was provided to you several pages back. But you reject it because it destroys your thesis. You are this website’s most boring broken record.[/quote]

No one has provided any evidence. That's the issue. [/quote]

If there were evidence, it would be obvious by now. The city has increased ticketing by nearly 1000 percent over the past decade, and issues enough tickets each year to hit every driver in the city multiple times, and yet accident rates are no better than they were 10 years ago. [/quote]

it's not just that handing out a billion traffic tickets isn't making a difference, it's literally everything dot is doing isn't making a difference. [/quote]

Another factor is that, during COVID people started driving through DC like bats out of hell.  Dialing that back requires significant action.[/quote]

Funny how the explosion of ticketing correlates with the city's budget problems, and not COVID.

2020: 1.4 million tickets
2021: 1.4 million tickets
2022: 1.4 million tickets
2023: 1.8 million tickets 
2024: 3.3 million tickets  [/quote]

They massively increased the amount of cameras during the pandemic. What you're seeing is the implementation lag.

Most of the recent bad decisions happened in 2022 when people weren't paying attention.  That's why congestion is so much worse now then it was in 2019.

There was also an old lady who swallowed a fly situation after they curtailed MPD.

It could have been even worse.  Some of the extremists wanted to shrink every road plus putting cameras and speed bumps on every block.  [/quote]
Congestion is worse because vehicles get bigger, drivers are more distracted and parking in travel lanes is low risk.[/quote]

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