In a single month, the District of Columbia took in just under $26 million in revenue from its ubiquitous traffic cameras. And, no, that figure wasn’t a typo when The Washington Examiner published it Tuesday.

To put that staggering sum in perspective, it is more than twice the $12 million taken in last January. In fact, the District took in only $55 million from these cameras for the entire fiscal year of 2011. The revenue stream is likely to keep growing. The District government will add 134 more of these cameras over the course of this year, more than doubling the size of its existing network.