[Tilted Irish Kilt]

george76 ~:” Contrary to its claims, the City of Chicago’s red light cameras are not based on safety, according to an Inspector General (IG) audit of the program that brought in more than $71 million in revenue for the city last year. “

I wonder how much of that money went to the city , and how much went to the opertors of the cameras.
In Florida , in order to collect more money , they shortened the timeing cycle of the lights by more than 1/2 second; resulting in more fines.
It also resulted in more ‘rear-end’ collisions by people who slammed on the brakes so they wouldn’t go through a yellow caution intersection .

Camera surveilled intersection = $50.00 ticket
Take it to court = additional court charges just to oppose ticket
The number of ‘rear-end’ collisions has gone up dramaticly

[rarestia]

In Florida , in order to collect more money , they shortened the timeing cycle of the lights by more than 1/2 second; resulting in more fines.

One of the nearby cities to me, Oldsmar, FL, is smack dab in the middle of these shenanigans, and it's comical what's being done about it. Instead of using the small side road where the camera is located, people are cutting through the neighboring mall parking lot to get where they have to go. Traffic in the mall has gone up tenfold while the number of tickets they've issued from this particular camera have plummeted. They used this intersection, which happens to be right next to a mobile home park (read: elderly), as a test case to shorten the light cycles, and now the city is facing lawsuits from people being issued tickets for modifying their yellow light timers below the state required minimum.

Red light cameras are a bane and completely counter to the idea of "facing your accuser." I can't subpoena a camera to a court proceeding.

[Neidermeyer]

I wonder how much of that money went to the city , and how much went to the opertors of the cameras.
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If the city made $71M ,, then the camera operator most likely got $284M ,, the cities usually get 20% ...

[Condor51]

*** I wonder how much of that money went to the city , and how much went to the operators of the cameras.***

Well, if it's anything like the Parking Meter Contract that dumb Richie Daley signed, at the end of the day Chicago will owe money to the camera company. That $71 million will have a big minus sign in front of it.