WASHINGTON - The D.C. council's decision to close a major funding loophole through issuing more parking tickets has many in the city outraged.
Drivers parking on the street in D.C. are required to move their cars for routine street cleaning. Many, though, leave their cars parked where they are and have, in the past, escaped any consequence. That will change under the new budget: the city will outfit 12 street sweeper vehicles with cameras, catching those who don't move their cars and hitting them with tickets.
William Howland of District Department of Public Works said, "With the sweeper cam, you'll a have hundred percent chance that you will get a ticket."
That $40 ticket, multiplied by the more than 200,000 the city expects to issue, will equal about $7 million in new revenue.
Outrage over the new policy boiled over outside the L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station Wednesday. After city workers booted his truck, an immigrant known as 'Zack' pulled a knife and started cutting his own truck tires. In the process he somehow cut off part of his finger.
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