http://warondriving.com/post/12242062415/naperville-ends-red-light-cameras

Naperville, IL Drops Red Light Camera Program in a Surprise Vote

This can’t bode well for Rahm Emanuel’s proposed Big Brother expansion http://warondriving.com/post/11867699852/chicago-speed-cameras in Chicago to drive up revenues. Redflex is out of another Chicago suburb, Naperville, by the beginning of 2012.

Naperville city council made a move back in July of 2010 http://theexpiredmeter.com/2011/06/red-light-camera-violations-down-in-naperville/ that ultimately doomed the program. After complaints from residents that the system was unfair, they dropped the “right on red” tickets which accounted for a vast majority of the citations issued  by the system.

Immediately after that decision, citations dropped across all for intersections with red light cameras by up to 65%.

Right turns on red light, which are legal at three out of the four monitored Naperville intersections, are proven to rarely be a factor in traffic collisions. Typically it’s less than 1% of the time.  http://saferstreetsla.org/193/dangerous-rolling-turn/

They are, however, proven to be a major revenue generator. Schaumburg red light cameras met a similar fate in 2009, when public pressure forced their city government to cease ticketing for right turns on red. The cameras became unprofitable http://thenewspaper.com/news/28/2836.asp immediately following that move and the entire camera program was halted.

Despite these trends in the suburbs of Chicago, the city itself still tickets more motorists for right on red than any other in the U.S. Add speed cameras to that mix and you’ll have quite the angry populace.

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