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Lawmakers Want More Cameras Looking for Speeders
Speeding could earn you a $100 ticket, and a police officer wouldn't have to be anywhere near you. A bill before state lawmakers would let municipalities in the top two metropolitan areas install speed cameras, which would photograph your license plate, record your speed, and send you a ticket in the mail.

State Sen. Terry Link (D-Waukegan), the bill's sponsor, says it's about safety. He says that in 2007, 520 speed-related deaths were logged on Illinois roadways, and he thinks speed cameras would be worth it if only one life were saved. The House sponsor, State Rep. Joe Lyons (D-Chicago), says this program would be easier to implement than red light cameras, because the ticket would not be for a moving violation, so the cameras don’t have to catch the diver’s face, just the license plate.

Both insist that the plan is not designed to help metro areas collect money. If this passes, they hope to expand it later to include all Illinois counties, and state highways.

This measure would affect eight counties: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, Will, and McHenry in the Chicago area, and Saint Clair and Madison counties in the Metro East area.

(Illinois Radio Network)
03 26 09 by Newsroom
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