Drivers, beware: D.C. to aim more cameras at traffic scofflaws

This certainly adds more reasons to stay away from Washington D.C. The cameras certainly make for an awful environment to live in or even visit. These cameras need to be banned everywhere.

Read the same article yesterday. I'm adjacent to DC in Maryland. They're simply trying to compete with Maryland.

Sounds like it's time to abandon the area.

Fred

in DC is already ridiculous. Comparing the number of camera's to those in MD may be interesting, but based on a per square area or per capita basis, Maryland has a vastly larger area and population. DC will have a large number of camera's compared to either it's population or square area.

Plus DC has long yellow lights that out of towners are not used to. If they stop because of a potential camera, they may get rear ended by a DC driver who is trying to make the light. This is exactly why Virginia has curtailed its use of traffic cameras ticketing. Though Virginia still has its fair share if you look at the database hosted here. See this link

http://www.motorists.org/red-light-cameras/2007Virginia.pdf

Danged if you do... danged if you don't... UGH

>>Plus DC has long yellow lights that out of towners are not used to. If they stop because of a potential camera, they may get rear ended by a DC driver who is trying to make the light.<<

I forgot to mention that I had emailed DC Mayor Gray & told him that I was no longer purchasing wine nor foods nor eat at any DC restaurants in response to his need for additional ticketing revenue for the District. I also told him that I was alerting my neighbors & will try to convince them that they need to stop purchases in DC too.

He may ignore it, but if/when the revenue from DC businesses start to noticeably decline & tax revenue to DC begins to drop, he may find himself up shits creek both politically & economically.

The bottom line is that it's up to affected citizens to draw the line at what they will & won't tolerate.

Fred

Seems like you would do more to eliminate cameras if you were telling your neighbors to simply obey the law. If everyone did that, then cameras would not generate any revenue.

Not buying in DC, and encouraging your friends to do the same, would seem to hurt the merchants more than the city.

Drivers who do not live in a particular city do not have any representation when it comes to voting in or out politicians who allow these cameras. Financially hurting merchants who presumably have a little more clout than the average driver, might put some political pressure on the politicians. While it may have a somewhat limited impact, it is still a valid strategy and one that I follow. I try to avoid cities which have these cameras and when I do need to visit them, I map it out so I don't go near the cameras and I also don't spend any money there.

Thanks for the "heads up" !

Ron