The proliferation of unreadable “ghost plates” could be costing New York City up to $200 million annually in lost revenue, according to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine.
In a new report released Monday, Levine says license plates on some 100,000 cars passing city traffic cameras each month are unreadable, and 5% of all cars passing cameras and tolling stations in the city can’t be processed — fleecing the city of substantial revenue from tolls and tickets issued by cameras, and allowing reckless drivers to wreak havoc on Big Apple streets.
