Ticketing Starts Wednesday at 5 New DC Speed Camera Enforcement Sites

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Starting Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police Department will begin issuing tickets from five new speed cameras recently installed. The deployment locations for the Photo Enforcement Units are sites where speeding has been identified to be a problem, according to a news release from DC Police.

Here are the locations of the new cameras:

• 2600 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW in the northbound direction. The speed limit is 25 mph.
• 4400 block of Reservoir Road NW in the eastbound direction. The speed limit is 25 mph.
• 700 block of Maryland Avenue NE in the southwest direction. The speed limit is 25 mph.
• 2400 18th Street NE in the southbound direction. The speed limit is 25 mph.
• 3000 Pennsylvania Avenue SE in the northwest direction. The speed limit is 30 mph.

Since January 2014, the city has added a total of 66 new automated traffic camera enforcement locations, with a growing arsenal of speed cameras, stop-sign cameras, and over-sized vehicle cameras, in virtually every quadrant of Washington, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Ticketing is increasing this year, as a result. So is revenue. The District issued 112,132 speed camera tickets during the first four months of the current fiscal year, which began last October, notes AAA Mid-Atlantic. What’s more, the city’s network of speed cameras has generated $14,723,564 in speed camera revenue already during Fiscal Year 2015, in the period ending Jan. 31, 2015.

“If the current pace of ticketing continues, it is probable the District will issue nearly 450,000 speed camera tickets during FY15 and glean almost 60 million dollars in speed camera revenue,” said John B. Townsend II, AAA Mid-Atlantic’s Manager of Public and Government Affairs. “It appears the number of speed camera tickets and concomitant revenue are rebounding after falling to a seven-year low last year. The number of citations dropped to 282,021 in FY14, and speed camera revenue dipped to $37,472,385. That compares to 419,037 speed camera tickets and $75,713,666 in photo-enforcement ticket revenue in FY13.”

Since its inception in 2001, the District’s speed camera program has collected a half billion dollars - $477,233,841- in revenue. The Inspector General and critics say the District should deploy speed cameras in spots where speeding is a “documented problem.”

See a list of all the DC speed camera sites here.