Some council members argued those with red light or speeding tickets should not be able to renew their licenses without paying the fines, but others disagreed.
Several council members argued that drivers who have repeatedly been ticketed for running red lights or driving far above the speed limit should not be able to renew their licenses without paying the fines for their violations, lest they keep putting other drivers and pedestrians at risk.
Council members Charles Allen , Mary M. Cheh , Christina Henderson and Brooke Pinto were in the minority, voting for an amendment that would have narrowed the bill to allow the city to keep withholding license renewals from those who have at least three unpaid tickets for certain violations like speeding and running red lights.
“We are running out of tools to address speeding violations and dangerous moving violations,” Pinto said.Some of the lawmakers who supported the bill said the District needs to crack down on dangerous driving, but did not see fines as the right way to do so.“Are we just going to be punishing poor low-wage folks with tickets while wealthy reckless drivers can pay them off and keep being reckless drivers?” said Janeese Lewis George .
McDuffie pointed out that only Texas and Illinois share the District’s practice of tying driver’s license eligibility to unpaid fines. “It’s preventing many low-income D.C. residents from getting work. It’s preventing them from taking their kids to school. It’s preventing them from going to the doctor. … It’s preventing them from accessing healthy food,” he said.
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