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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC should offer a discount on registration for low-income and offer to pay some of the insurance for them if they have no unpaid tickets. Give a 3-month grace period for people to come current, then impound the hell out of cars with fake/illegal tags (there's a guy who parks in my neighborhood with virginia "farm use" tags) and ones with unpaid tickets.

The folks who say "well you're just as bad a driver if you get a lot of tickets and pay them"--show me that there is any car that gets at least 10 tickets a year and is not currently tow-eligible and then we can talk about that. [b]I am not sure there really are people who get that many tickets and pay them.[/b] If there are, there could be different solutions depending on who they are--like are they a home health aide or construction worker or delivery person who can't find legal parking? Are they someone who speeds and runs red lights every day? The deterrents would be different for each. But we don't have to think much about the deterrents unless these cars actually exist. If they don't, and the worst drivers are in fact the ones with lots of unpaid tickets, increasing towing is a good solution. And hiring more tow crews is a good way to increase employment in DC. [/quote]

I think it's highly likely that there are drivers who regularly receive speed camera tickets and pay them. I know several people who got multiple tickets from the same camera (not in DC), because they said they kept forgetting...[/quote]

I think this would be very interesting data to make public. I could imagine a group of people who pay off 3-5 speeding tickets a year. Maybe even 10. But there's a car in my neighborhood right now with over 30 unpaid tickets. Are there people paying 30 tickets a year, or are the people who rack up 30 tickets the people who don't care because they're never going to pay them? The public, and the Council, don't really know.[/quote]

The problem is that most people with multiple tickets have cars registered in MD and VA. DC has no way to go after those drivers. [/quote]

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