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I sure hope the Maryland State Highway Administration has some good ideas, because it sounds like they’re about to come into a huge amount of revenue. Officials announced yesterday that the state is planning would install speed cameras on the Beltway in order to enforce the law along a stretch of construction near Silver Spring. The cameras, which will be placed between University Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue, will help dole out $40 tickets to anyone driving faster than 67 miles per hour along the stretch.

Consider that cameras along other Maryland roads less traveled than the Beltway have a track record of bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars per month, this project is slated to last for several years, and then factor in the general reputation of Maryland’s drivers — I fully expect the cameras to make the state one of the richest in the Union in short order.