Upcoming vote to abolish the Philadelphia Traffic Court will not change the current Traffic Court sy
On April 26, 2016, voters across Pennsylvania will be given the opportunity to vote to abolish the Philadelphia Traffic Court. First established in 1968, the Philadelphia Traffic Court has recently been plagued with controversy. Ticket fixing and underhanded deals to look the other way came to light in the past decade. In 2012, a report commissioned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court report found that Traffic Court Judges routinely fixed tickets by granting “third-party reques