“Dear PoPville,
I can’t be the only one that’s been getting tickets because of all of the new traffic cameras.
I consider myself a generally good driver, and hadn’t gotten a single traffic ticket in 20+ years of driving..until DC installed traffic cameras at intersections. My wife and I have gotten like 8-10 tickets over the last year for like stopping partially on the crosswalk. Or for not making a complete stop for *long enough*. Recently we got one for dropping someone off at a bus stop where you can’t stop. I get these are infractions that technically should get cited; but they’re $100 a pop, and some we thought were at the very least questionable. (No luck so far contesting them…) Plus, there aren’t signs posted like they have when speeding cameras are present.
What’s particularly infuriating is that DC is notoriously terrible about enforcing traffic violations — like the roaming motorcycle/ATVs or all of the other terrible driving in the city that’s never cited.
My question is, we can’t be the only ones dealing with this and wondering if there’s anything we can do through our city council to make this less burdensome on DC families?”