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By Cami Mondeaux, Web Producer
Washington, D.C., could see its speed enforcement cameras triple over the next year, a seemingly futile attempt to address the rising number of traffic fatalities due to a legal loophole that allows some drivers to evade payment.
Mayor Muriel Bowser requested $9.4 million to go toward installing 170 new traffic cameras to enforce speed limits as part of her Wednesday budget proposal, which did not include a fix for a textual quirk that allows residents of neighboring Virginia and Maryland to forgo payment without true penalty.
Washington doesn’t have a system of ticket reciprocity, meaning nonresidents are treated as residents when pulled over for traffic offenses. As a result, there’s no enforcement for Virginia and Maryland drivers to pay their fines — and many of them don’t…