The District anticipates collecting more than $837 million in traffic fines and fees over the next five years, according to data from the D.C. Office of the Chief Financial Officer.
More than 58 percent of that will come from the District’s automated ticket enforcement system, which includes radar and red-light cameras. The rest comes from other parking and moving violations.
Traffic fines and fees account for more than 96 percent of all fines and fees the District plans to collect over the next five years, according to budget documents. The projections come after the District reported record traffic fine and fee revenue in fiscal 2016– totaling $196.7 million — 97 percent of all the fines and fees collected by the District that year.
The total fines and fees collected in fiscal 2016 represent a massive 70 percent jump over the $117 million reported in fiscal 2015 and a 46 percent increase over the $136 million reported in fiscal 2014.
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