Red Light Cameras Being Removed?

Only 36 though:

• Chicago motorists are getting some relief from video surveillance just when Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s speed cameras around schools and parks are about to start churning out $35 and $100 tickets.
  
  City Hall is removing 36 red-light cameras at 18 intersections where cameras have succeeded in reducing right-angle crashes caused by red-light running and most likely to cause death or serious injury.
  
  That will leave Chicago with 348 red-light cameras at 172 intersections.

Ah, we see it now - the City is declaring success in reducing accidents at these intersections, therefore, the cameras are no longer needed. Brilliant.

Of course, it was pointed out that most of the affected intersections didn't need cameras anyway:

• Earlier this year, Inspector General Joe Ferguson concluded there was no evidence to substantiate the city’s claim that red-light cameras have either reduced accidents or are installed at the most dangerous intersections.
  
  Under former Mayor Richard M. Daley, the Chicago Department of Transportation claimed to have chosen intersections with the highest number of “angle crashes” caused by red-light running to pump out $100 tickets that now generate $72 million in annual revenues.
  
  But Ferguson said CDOT was unable to produce evidence that accident data was used in the selection of red-light camera locations or that CDOT continually evaluates accident data to relocate cameras to the most-dangerous spots.

Money grab, plain and simple. And as the revenues declined due to people learning a painful lesson, you can bet that Rahm is looking for 36 new places to put cameras to make up the shortfalls.