Chicago Speed Camera Hearing Postponed
Hmmmm.
There was supposed to be a hearing on Chicago’s proposed speed camera law at the next meeting of the City Council Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety on Monday.
Despite the meeting not appearing on the City Clerk’s website, and Committee Chair Margaret Laurino’s (39th) staff telling this writer multiple times no meeting had been scheduled, the Chicago Tribune is reporting a meeting was scheduled and then postponed to allow committee members to gauge constituent sentiment on the issue.
It sounds like aldermen are hearing from constituents and perhaps it’s not very positive. And just maybe, aldermen don’t want to go through another parking meter lease deal where city council members are still hearing from angry constituents nearly four years after the fact.
Here’s the Tribune’s full story, “Speed-camera hearing stalled.”
Sure, whatever. It’ll pass, just like the meters and when everyone gets tickets then they’ll start asking questions and have a hissy fit.
Spot on target Mike.
The democratic machine showed its malfeasance and total contempt for the public when it voted in the parking meter lease deal fraud four years ago. Today we are still paying for the government’s lack of oversight during the overnight legislative ramrodding.
Now the city power brokers again brandish their audacious chutzpa by promoting automated speed enforcement (speed cameras) for our kids’ safety. Infused with short sighted greed and long term traffic safety blindness, the city wants to jump into the speed camera abyss placing drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists in Harm’s Way. Speed cameras have never been recognized as a traffic safety tool. Like red light cameras there are no peer reviewed independent safety based statistics upon which an argument can be made.
Fast-tracking speed ticketing at a break-neck pace without police officer discretion, no equipment vetting process or past field experience leaves the city with cash, the citizens with less income and all of us with reduced traffic safety. Use the social media lets your elected officials know your opinion in every way possible way. With modern communications we cannot be silent. If speed cameras are allowed to operate, we will have only ourselves to blame for it, silence would be golden for the machine politicians.