Surveillance city: DC traffic camera tickets reached $50 million in 2010
by Ashley Cullins, Medill News Service on 12/06/11
D.C. drivers have the need for speed; more than 500,000 speeding tickets were issued by traffic cameras last year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesman John Townsend II.
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