Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:According to the report, 973,431 tickets were mailed out to drivers between Oct. 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. A majority of those tickets – 739,876 – were for speeding.
Maryland drivers made up most of the tickets, amounting to roughly 40%. Virginia drivers followed with 26% of the tickets. D.C. drivers received 21% of tickets.
During that time, $87,470,702 in Automatic Traffic Enforcement (ATE) program tickets were collected by the District. Meanwhile, 525,452 tickets remained unpaid.
Of the uncollected tickets, more than 350,000 of them belonged to Maryland and Virginia drivers.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/ddot-district-traffic-cameras/
It's really infuriating the degree to which dangerous drivers come into DC from MD and VA and make our roads less safe but then don't even pay their speeding tickets. The suburbs of DC just abuse this city while relying on it for jobs and entertainment -- it's such a screwed up relationship.
The cameras are disproportionately on arteries into the city, so you can't actually say that DC drivers are safer because they get fewer tickets. Hasn't someone on here been obsessed with pedestrian death and injuries -- is there any data on the residences of the drivers who caused those accidents?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:According to the report, 973,431 tickets were mailed out to drivers between Oct. 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. A majority of those tickets – 739,876 – were for speeding.
Maryland drivers made up most of the tickets, amounting to roughly 40%. Virginia drivers followed with 26% of the tickets. D.C. drivers received 21% of tickets.
During that time, $87,470,702 in Automatic Traffic Enforcement (ATE) program tickets were collected by the District. Meanwhile, 525,452 tickets remained unpaid.
Of the uncollected tickets, more than 350,000 of them belonged to Maryland and Virginia drivers.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/ddot-district-traffic-cameras/
It's really infuriating the degree to which dangerous drivers come into DC from MD and VA and make our roads less safe but then don't even pay their speeding tickets. The suburbs of DC just abuse this city while relying on it for jobs and entertainment -- it's such a screwed up relationship.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I live in Maryland and I always pay camera tickets. Am I a fool? Should I just not pay them? I don’t get them often.
Your only risk -- and it's a minuscule risk -- is if they catch your car parked on a city street (DC cannot ticket on private property, including parking garages). Then they can call the tow truck, but even then it probably will take hours until one is available. Otherwise you can safely throw those tickets in the trash (not paying them will not ding your credit, because the credit agencies no longer consider debt that arises from parking tickets).
Anonymous wrote:I live in Maryland and I always pay camera tickets. Am I a fool? Should I just not pay them? I don’t get them often.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:According to the report, 973,431 tickets were mailed out to drivers between Oct. 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. A majority of those tickets – 739,876 – were for speeding.
Maryland drivers made up most of the tickets, amounting to roughly 40%. Virginia drivers followed with 26% of the tickets. D.C. drivers received 21% of tickets.
During that time, $87,470,702 in Automatic Traffic Enforcement (ATE) program tickets were collected by the District. Meanwhile, 525,452 tickets remained unpaid.
Of the uncollected tickets, more than 350,000 of them belonged to Maryland and Virginia drivers.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/ddot-district-traffic-cameras/
It's really infuriating the degree to which dangerous drivers come into DC from MD and VA and make our roads less safe but then don't even pay their speeding tickets. The suburbs of DC just abuse this city while relying on it for jobs and entertainment -- it's such a screwed up relationship.
Anonymous wrote:According to the report, 973,431 tickets were mailed out to drivers between Oct. 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. A majority of those tickets – 739,876 – were for speeding.
Maryland drivers made up most of the tickets, amounting to roughly 40%. Virginia drivers followed with 26% of the tickets. D.C. drivers received 21% of tickets.
During that time, $87,470,702 in Automatic Traffic Enforcement (ATE) program tickets were collected by the District. Meanwhile, 525,452 tickets remained unpaid.
Of the uncollected tickets, more than 350,000 of them belonged to Maryland and Virginia drivers.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/ddot-district-traffic-cameras/
According to the report, 973,431 tickets were mailed out to drivers between Oct. 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024. A majority of those tickets – 739,876 – were for speeding.
Maryland drivers made up most of the tickets, amounting to roughly 40%. Virginia drivers followed with 26% of the tickets. D.C. drivers received 21% of tickets.
During that time, $87,470,702 in Automatic Traffic Enforcement (ATE) program tickets were collected by the District. Meanwhile, 525,452 tickets remained unpaid.
Of the uncollected tickets, more than 350,000 of them belonged to Maryland and Virginia drivers.