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measured mean speeds down 14% across seven D.C. enforcement zones against eight Baltimore control sites, and vehicles exceeding the limit by more than 10 mph down 82%
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Automated Traffic Enforcement Cameras and the Collection Gap
Revision 2026-08-20-source-dates · effective 2026-07-26
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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 1 claim and 9 source dossiers.
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- District Department of Transportation (DDOT); tickets adjudicated by DC DMV
- Actor types
- city-government
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- District of Columbia; fine revenue goes to the General Fund
- Cost
- Vendor contract ≈$3.5M/year (2017 award)
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9 source dossiers
DDOT — Automated Traffic Enforcement Program
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- Name not classified · ddot.dc.gov
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- web-page · language not classified
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Operator page: the program targets 'speeding, failure to yield, and running red lights or STOP signs', plus oversized-vehicle monitoring; DDOT places and maintains the equipment, DC DMV handles payment.
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MPD — Public roundtable on police utilization of red light and speed cameras
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- Name not classified · mpdc.dc.gov
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- web-page · language not classified
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'In August 1999, the MPD activated their first red-light intersection safety camera at the corner of New York Avenue and 4th Street, NW. In that first month alone, that one camera captured 7,598 red-light running violations.' Page returns 403 to automated fetching; sentence confirmed via two independent search retrievals of this URL.
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Retting & Farmer, Evaluation of speed camera enforcement in the District of Columbia (Transportation Research Record, 2003)
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src-3143609a00ea47a1- Publisher
- Name not classified · iihs.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Open archived copy ↗ · 2025-05-15
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Peer-reviewed, control-group study of the 2001 program: 'mean speeds at Washington sites declined by a statistically significant 14% compared with Baltimore sites' and 'the proportion of vehicles exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 mph declined 82%'.
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D.C. Council Office of the Budget Director — Automated Traffic Enforcement
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- Name not classified · dccouncilbudget.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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'As of November 2023, there were a total of 145 ATEs in operation in the District: 109 speed cameras, 29 red light cameras, and seven stop sign cameras.' and 'In Fiscal Year 2024, the District plans to add an additional 342 cameras to the ATE system.' Also: more than 95% of the 1.4 million tickets issued in 2022 came from cameras, not officers.
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FOX 5 DC — DOT proposal seeks to eliminate DC traffic cameras (7 Jan 2026)
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- Name not classified · fox5dc.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-01-07
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'There are currently 546 active enforcement cameras across the city.' Cites D.C. financial data for $139.5 million in FY2023, $213.3 million in FY2024 and $267.3 million in FY2025, and reports the U.S. DOT proposal to prohibit automated enforcement in the District.
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WTOP — Which DC speed cameras gave the most tickets last year? (Apr 2026)
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- Name not classified · wtop.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-04-09
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FY2025 fleet: 215 speed, 55 red light, 31 stop sign, 10 oversized/overweight truck, 25 school-bus stop-arm and 210 WMATA bus-lane cameras (sums to 546). 'In the first half 2025, the city collected over $110 million in fines from traffic cameras.' Maryland 41%, Virginia 27%, D.C. 18% of tickets. DDOT separately claims a 50% reduction in speeds up to 25 mph over the limit — operator self-report, no control group.
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The Washington Post via The Daily Record — D.C.'s speed cameras are catching super violators (30 Mar 2026)
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- Name not classified · thedailyrecord.com
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- 2026-03-30
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One Maryland-tagged Audi holds 891 tickets and '$259,214 in unpaid fines'; a Virginia-plated car took 556 tickets in 12 months. The Attorney General 'won judgments or settlements against 15 drivers from Maryland and Virginia that total $608,292, though the vast majority of that money has yet to be claimed.' 'Neither of those states penalize their residents for citations issued by cameras in another jurisdiction.' D.C. 'can seize out-of-state vehicles only if they are parked on the street in the city.'
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51st News — House Republicans move to kill D.C. traffic cameras (Mar 2026)
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- Name not classified · 51st.news
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- 2026-03-19
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'in 2025 they issued more than 3.3 million tickets (70% of which were for speeding), worth some $383 million in fines — if they were all paid.' Ticket shares: 'Almost 40% of the tickets issued last year went to Maryland drivers, 28% to Virginia motorists, 18% for D.C. drivers, and the remaining 14% to motorists from outside the immediate region.' House Oversight Committee advanced the ban bill on 18 March 2026; it still needs both chambers.
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Washington City Paper — Traffic tickets: the District profits and residents pay
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- Name not classified · washingtoncitypaper.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2018-09-13
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'In 2017, the city hired a vendor called American Traffic Solutions to run its camera enforcement program' 'for a fixed price contract of $3,528,261.63 per year' — a flat fee, not a per-ticket cut. 'Revenue collected through parking and photo citation enforcement currently goes to the city's General Fund, which funds government operations, debt financing, and helps pay for water and sewer services.'
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- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
- A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
- The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.