District collects $2m from scofflaw drivers

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The District raked in nearly $2 million in three months under an amnesty program for drivers who haven’t paid their traffic tickets. But that’s only a small fraction of the amount yet to be paid — nearly a third of a billion dollars. Drivers paid 35,357 long-overdue tickets and coughed up $1,902,665 since the program started, according to the city’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

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