Red Light Cameras (Credit: CBS)
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (CBS) — Effective later Tuesday, the red light cameras in Naperville will be taken offline permanently.
As CBS 2’s Kris Habermehl reports, the City of Naperville will pull the plug on the cameras after three years in operation. They are located at the intersections of Route 59 with North Aurora and Diehl roads, and the junction of Ogden and Aurora avenues.
The Naperville City Council voted in November to end its red light camera contract early and do away with the cameras, the Chicago Tribune reported at the time
The council was deadlocked 4-4 on whether to renew the contract, and since there was no majority, the contract was left to expire, the newspaper reported.
The city already had planned to turn off the two red light cameras on Route 59 when a road construction and widening project begins later this year. But officials concluded that the third planned camera on Ogden Avenue would not have paid for itself through ticket revenues, the Tribune reported.
City Manager Doug Krieger says terminating the contract will cost the city $261,000 a year, the Tribune reported.
By the by, the absence of red light cameras does not mean motorists can expect lax enforcement at the intersections where they stood. Police officers will be enforcing speed and red light laws, and will be parked nearby.
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Naperville is a municipality with less than 2m people so now that they can no longer intrap motorcycles with those red light cameras they take em down lol.
January 3, 2012 at 6:43 am
Here is the law as taken from the Illinois General Assembly web site
Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the driver of a motorcycle, facing any steady red signal which fails to change to a green signal within a reasonable period of time because of a signal malfunction or because the signal has failed to detect the arrival of the motorcycle due to the motorcycle’s size or weight, has the right to proceed subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign.
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that in municipalities with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the driver of a motorcycle, facing any steady red signal which fails to change to a green signal within a reasonable period of time because of a signal malfunction or because the signal has failed to detect the arrival of the motorcycle due to the motorcycle’s size or weight, has the right to proceed, after yielding the right of way to oncoming traffic facing a green signal, subject to the rules applicable after making a stop at a stop sign. Provides that a county, or a municipality with less than 2,000,000 inhabitants, including a home rule county or municipality, may not use an automated traffic law enforcement system to issue violations in instances where a motorcyclist enters an intersection against a red signal indication when the red signal fails to change to a green signal within a reasonable period of time because of a signal malfunction or because the signal has failed to detect the arrival of the motorcycle due to the motorcycle’s size or weight.
The reasonable time is 2 minutes
January 3, 2012 at 7:02 am
I don’t know why law makers don’t do this same thing with Right to carry. Cook County is the only place in Illinois where this law won’t apply. Cook County makes its self exempt from Illinois laws, it don’t want to be a part of Illinois so fuk em we make laws and exclude their dumb ass. Why does a single state have to have two sets of laws for everything just because of one dumbfuk county?
DECATUR, Ill. (CBS) — A downstate lawmaker would like to kick Chicago and Cook County out of the Illinois.
CBS 2 Political Producer Ed Marshall says state Rep. Bill Mitchell (R-Decatur) finds that Cook County dominates all politics and legislation in Springfield, and he thinks it is time for the state to cut its largest population center adrift for the “betterment” of the rest of Illinois.
He says Cook County should be allowed to exist apart from the state like the District of Columbia, with its own government.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=52&GAID=11&GA=97&DocTypeID=HJR&LegID=62604&SessionID=84
January 3, 2012 at 8:02 am
Interesting how when the the cameras are not a revenue producing stream, or perhaps are even a cost towards providing public safety for citizens, the city wants to remove them.
January 3, 2012 at 8:13 am
Isn’t it though
January 3, 2012 at 8:17 am