More Parking Tickets in DC
The Examiner reported yesterday that the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles planning to eliminate allowing drivers to fight DC parking tickets in-person.
Last year, over 54,000 (4%) of the 1.5 million tickets issued were contested in-person. Tickets will only be able to be fought by mail or e-mail.
The DMV also plans to implement a “street-sweeper” camera program in 2008, by installing high-resolution cameras on the city’s fleet of street sweepers.
The concept mounts forward-facing cameras, on transit vehicles and street sweepers, to take photos of an illegally parked car’s license plate. A citation is then mailed to the vehicle’s …read more
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