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Replying to: grbeck (Mar 25, 2009 10:09 am) Try that excuse next time you are in court with a traffic ticket !!! Then the judge and the whole courtroom can laugh at you !!!
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Article in Chicago Tribune today says that Bill may come up for vote in Illinois Senate next week to allow speed cameras by municipalities or counties in 8 counties. Six counties are near Chicago, two are downstate. Bill has support of Illinois Secretary of State. If Bill is approved, cameras could start operating next Jan 1. The 8 counties targetted have the highest amount of traffic deaths atributed to speeding. The fine max would be $100 and the ticket for any offense will be mailed to the vehicle owner. Vehicle owner is responsible for paying the fine. This makes sense in that vehicle owner is responsible for who they might authorize to use vehicle if not themselves driving it. Impeached Democrat Governor Blagoyovich had wanted speed cameras on Illinois intersatates.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Mar 26, 2009 5:34 am) What I mean by that is IL cares about safety! |
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Replying to: larsb (Mar 25, 2009 11:28 am) |
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Replying to: fintail (Mar 26, 2009 7:05 am) from: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/24/2496.asp Illinois Plans $50 Million in Statewide Speed Camera Profit Illinois governor unveils proposal to line every freeway in the state with speed cameras, generating $50 million in annual revenue. Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich (D) held a news conference yesterday announcing his plan to expand dramatically the state's existing freeway speed camera program. Since May 2006, photo ticketing vans operated by Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) have mailed photo tickets from highway construction zones. These tickets carry points, automatic license suspensions and fines of $375 and $1000 for the first and second offense, respectively. Blagojevich wants to start with at least one hundred new cameras spread out on every interstate highway outside the work zones so that the system can raise $50 million in annual profit. "This initiative to have speed enforcement cameras is predicated on a two-prong reality," Blagojevich explained. "We want to make our highways safer and then from the revenue we generate from this to hire more police officers, more state troopers." The state legislature would have to approve Blagojevich's proposal for $100 freeway photo ticket that do not carry points or require photographs of the driver. These changes would boost both the volume of citations issued and the net revenue, allowing the state to hire 500 new Illinois State Police troopers who, in turn, would issue even more speeding tickets. Ten new state police "elite tactical teams" would focus, among other things, on "traffic activity." In the past few years, Illinois has steadily increased its dependence on photo enforcement revenue. Chicago, for example, has generated $72 million in revenue since 2003 from 69 red light cameras. The city recently announced a plan to boost the number to 290. Likewise, at least 83 local communities rushed to install or land a contract to install automated ticketing machines after the legislature granted permission to certain regions of the state.
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Replying to: vcheng (Mar 26, 2009 7:08 am)  Now that he's history, is his plan going through, will the sheeple of IL be fooled like the sheeple of AZ?
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Replying to: fintail (Mar 26, 2009 11:24 am)  I would be laughing too if the whole thing wasn't so serious and such a travesty. |
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I was taught that obeying the law is the right thing to do. If law officers want to speed, that DOES NOT give EVERYONE ELSE the automatic right to speed legally. Just like if you work in a bakery, you are usually free to sample the goods on occasion. That does not make it OK for Joe Public to walk into the kitchen and start chowing down. And Speed DOES Kill, and anyone that thinks otherwise is not seeing reality.
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