Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends plan to start issuing speed camera tickets for cars going 6 mph over the limit as ‘safety’ issue. City data shows a more complicated picture. – Chicago Tribune*

The Tribune analyzed 2019-2020 city crash report data available online, and found that fatal crashes blamed specifically on people driving recklessly, over the speed limit, too fast for conditions or too fast to avoid a crash are up by one — from 19 to 20.  
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3 years ago

 (1) Lightfoot Is Breaking Her Campaign Promise To Stop Using Traffic Cameras For Revenue, Rather Than Safety; (2) Studies Show That Speed Cameras Do Not Reduce Accidents; (3) This Is Exactly The Kind Of Predatory Ticketing That Hits Poor And Minorty Drivers The Mosts, Driving Them Into A Cycle Of Never Ending Debt; (4) Lightfoot Has Repeatedly Screwed Drivers To Grab Easy Money — Including Issuing Thousands Of Predatory Parking Tickets During The Pandemic After Promising Not To — Raising The Regressive City Gas Tax 60 Percent During The Same Pandemic — On Top Of The State’s 100 Percent Gas… Read more »

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