New Ticket-Giving Automated Cameras Installed Across D.C.

Beginning Monday, eight photo enforced locations will begin a trial period to protect pedestrians and other drivers.

The 30 day educational period will distribute warning citations for drivers who fail to obey the speed limit and stop signs starting Monday and ending Dec. 2.

“The deployment locations for the Photo Enforcement Units will be sites where speeding and pedestrian safety has been identified to be a problem,” the Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release.

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The following speed and stop sign cameras have been installed in the District:

• Stop sign: Fessenden Street e/b @ 44th Street NW
• Stop sign: North Capitol NE at Chillum (southwestbound)

• Speed: 600 block of Maryland Avenue NE (southwestbound)
• Speed: 3600 block of Park Place (southwestbound)
• Speed: 2600 block Lincoln Road NE (northbound)
• Speed: 3100 block of 4th Street NE (northbound)
• Speed: 3100 block of 4th Street NE (southbound)
• Speed: 4000 block 12th Street NE (northeastbound)

The number of drivers going over the limit by 10 miles per hour has decreased from a previous one in three to one in 40 since automated cameras first came to D.C., the MPD reports.

During the 2013 fiscal year, 581,951 citations were issued and an estimated $155 million is projected to be brought in due to the cameras for FY15.

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