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Photo Radar Results
Now in its fourth
year, the District of Columbia's Photo Radar Speeding Reduction
Program continues to show impressive results in reducing the
number of aggressive speeders on DC's roads and highways. Since
the program began in the summer of 2001, photo radar has achieved
the following results:
- For the second
month in a row, aggressive speeding in DC's photo radar enforcement
zones was at a record low rate during February 2005, with
just 3.3 percent of all vehicles monitored by photo radar found
to be speeding aggressively (that is, traveling above the threshold
speed established for the program). By comparison, the aggressive
speeding rate was 31 percent in July 2001 (initial warning period)
and 25.5 percent in August 2001 (first month of ticketing).
- Over the
past three-and-a-half years, aggressive speeding on DC roadways
monitored by photo radar has been dramatically reduced—from
almost 1 in 3 motorists speeding aggressively at the beginning
of the program to about 1 in 30 motorists in both January and
February 2005.
- Of the more
than 1.2 million vehicles that passed through photo radar enforcement
zones during February 2005, only about 41,000 were found to be
speeding aggressively. In February 2002, by contrast, there were
only 369,000 vehicles monitored by photo radar, but more than
60,000 violators detected, for an aggressive speeding rate of
16.4 percent.
- The aggressive
speeding rate at DC's first stationary
photo radar camera, located in the 600 block of Florida
Avenue, NE adjacent to Gallaudet
University, is even lower than the overall average.
During February 2005, fewer than 2.4 percent of the drivers in
this enforcement zone were speeding aggressively, down from approximately
7 percent in March 2004 and 11.5 percent in February 2004. During
February, the average speed of all vehicles traveling in the 600
block of Florida Avenue, NE, was actually slightly below the speed
limit of 25 mph.
- Average speeds
on all DC roadways—residential streets, arteries and highways—are
substantially lower today than they were when the program began
more than three years ago.
- On streets
with a 25-mph speed limit, the average speed of all vehicles monitored
by photo radar was just 25.6 mph in February 2005—down from
35.5 mph in July 2001. In 50-mph zones, the average motorist was
actually traveling below the speed limit (45.3 mph) during February
2005; that compares with an average speed of almost 8 mph above
the speed limit (57.7 mph) in July 2001.
- Since August
2001, more than 1.25 million Notices of Infraction have been mailed
and approximately 928,000 paid, resulting in fines of more than
$70 million. This level of consistent enforcement has been achieved
without taking officers from other community policing assignments
or otherwise diminishing public safety services in DC's neighborhoods.
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