Noise cameras would help ticket downtown drivers with loud mufflers under proposed city ordinance – Chicago Sun-Times

Backers of the proposed pilot program hope to address the negative health effects associated with loud noises: high blood pressure, depression and even heart attacks. Critics of the proposal say the cameras will target people who can’t afford car repairs — and are really a cash grab by politicians. “This is basically the next red-light camera,” said Josh Witkowski, of the motorcyclist advocacy group ABATE of Illinois.