Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government 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…
