Are Humans Really a Learning Species?

Just when law and order Virginia is outlawing automated traffic enforcement cameras, libertine Washington, DC is expanding its effort. The article indicates that nearly 500,000 tickets were issued in a city with about 550,000 in total population. Obviously not every one of the 500,000 is driving, and there aren't cameras everywhere. It looks like some people are getting multiple tickets. The Dodger had previously opined that speed camera enforcement would quickly end speeding, but apparently not so much.


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District Expanding Traffic Photo Ticketing
By Del Quentin Wilber

District officials defended the city's use of red-light and photo-radar cameras yesterday...The chief unveiled plans to add 10 red-light cameras and two mobile photo-radar devices. Last week, the police activated four new stationary photo-radar cameras. The city now has 39 red-light cameras and 13 photo-radar devices, five of them stationary and eight of them mobile. The mobile devices are used throughout the city.

Thanks to the cameras, police issued 423,910 tickets to motorists caught speeding last year in more than 70 enforcement zones, raising about $24 million in fines. Since the program began in 2001, the city has collected more than $62 million in fines, which are deposited into the government's general fund. The vast majority of those tickets went to Maryland and Virginia drivers.

D.C. police issued 78,029 tickets to motorists caught by cameras running red lights last year, resulting in $29.8 million in fines.