Comment from NMA Activist Barnet Fagel on Chicago Speed Scameras!

(from a post on the Expired Meter).

http://theexpiredmeter.com/2011/11/not-so-fast-quinn-considers-speed-camera-veto/

Barnet Fagel says:
November 11, 2011 at 9:49 pm
 

If speed cameras were focused on Springfield and Chicago during the light-speed passage of the automatic traffic enforcement bills you would have seen a tsunami of traffic tickets floating all over the streets. There has never been such an abuse of legislative discretion with no regard for public safety.
 

Pray for Governor Quinn to give pause, reflection and exercise common sense to know cameras are not a proven traffic safety solution. All the high-priced stakeholder spin-doctor pressuring won’t alter the fact that genuine peer-reviewed traffic statistics do not exist in support of any speed camera safety benefit in spite of the city’s hollow claims to the contrary. The city pointed to Arizona as an example of speed cameras, but these speed cameras were removed last July because local citizen complaints and a lack of safety performance. The other example offered was Maryland where it has been proven automatic speed enforcement has been riddled with errors and driver mistreatment. Expansion of Chicago’s camera enforcement system of “cop in a box” tactics will exacerbate existing disruptions to smooth traffic flow, thereby increasing chances of collision and injury.
 

This latest Scamera scheme validates Chicago’s ongoing near-sighted approach of usurping motorists for fractional infractions since 2003. Haven’t we had enough? If you think Chicago’s 390 red light cameras and premium priced parking meter lease deal are swindles, they will pale by comparison for what will be in the offing if Governor Quinn signs the bill into law. All the politicians’ in the world can’t outlaw Newton’s Second Law of Motion. “A body in motion tends to stay in motion”. Speed cameras will double the probability of getting not one, but two tickets at each equipped intersection. The unintended circumstances of camera enforcement include increased traffic delays, crashes, more traffic abnormalities, driver uncertainty, fear and financial distraction. All of this will negatively impact Chicago’s ability to rebuild its financial foundation, going for a short-term gain, only to get long term disaster.

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