Sounds Familiar
- SPRINGFIELD — Like many Chicagoans and other home-bound folks across the state, red-light cameras must be getting bored.
With many city and suburban streets looking like the main drag of a ghost town, the hated traffic enforcement cameras are, not surprisingly, catching fewer drivers running red lights during the coronavirus pandemic.
In Chicago, red-light violations were down 45% in March compared to the month before, according to city figures. And compared to March 2019, red-light violations in Chicago were down 54%, numbering just 19,840 in March 2020 compared to 42,812 in March 2019.
And the shutdown was only in effect for part of last month.
Like we said, Groot needs Chicago up and running, committing traffic and parking violations to feed the government coffers.
Since the media is stealing story ideas from the blog (again), maybe they can try asking about sales tax revenues next? Convention revenues? Landing fees at the airports? Don't forget Prickwrinkle's share. Then after they blow you off, try the Tollway Authority and then State government accounts.
Since the media is stealing story ideas from the blog (again), maybe they can try asking about sales tax revenues next? Convention revenues? Landing fees at the airports? Don't forget Prickwrinkle's share. Then after they blow you off, try the Tollway Authority and then State government accounts.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
60 Comments:
Waive the bag tax so people stop bringing their dirty bags into grocery stores....bad idea from the beginning.
IL Gov JB fat fuck pricksker and useless clown mayor larri lightweight counting on getting Billions $$$$ from congress..This is why empty CTA buses travel empty streets, in shithole Chicago
NEWS not on corrupt Chicago media... Dart has let out 1,400 inmates from Crook County jail..in the last 3 weeks ! ..b/c Chinese virus ,or liberals in action? …. Be careful out there
"Like we said, Groot needs Chicago up and running, committing traffic and parking violations to feed the government coffers."
Which is why the next pelosi federal grab is for city,county warriors(pensions).
Is it not time to flatten the communist curve?
Cannabis taxes. That’ll balance the books, especially “in these troubling times.”
And heroin. Why not legalize and tax that? Fentanyl hotshots? Even better. The market is huge and users will accept responsibility for both risk and taxes.
But if the city really wants a revenue haul it could tax political corruption and murder.
Its all in the shitter. JB is playing like the pussy he is and blaming the President any chance he can. He forgets he said the state was ready for this and wasnt waiting on the Feds. Numbers coming down. He is angling for bailout money since the state is basically bankrupt. Between SCC, CWB and Wirepoints.org. Thetrue story of the city and state can be found. I havent watched the nes for years now. Coffee, toast and SCC,CWB and Wirepoints every day.
Right now Lightfoot is probably thinking it was a bad idea to suspend late fees for city services, etc.
This shit has to end and soon, before they do some permanent damage to our economy.
Thank goodness the Sgts and Lts settled at 10% and got their retro checks already. We, the scum of the pond, would be looking at 2% for 5years based on economic conditions. Great job graham crackers not going to arbitration after year one without a contract. Sgts and Lts saved your incompetent ass. City, county and state going to be in a financial nightmare scenario. Think your property taxes are high now? Here comes the free colonoscopy from Groot without the lube.
I bet they are disproportionately writing person of color. Red light cameras are so damn racisit 24/7
SCC, anyone not referring to Democrats as communists, is well you know
These politicians are gonna have to come up with a more creative way to tax the citizens who are staying home due to the pandemic. I'm wondering what the geniuses will come up with next? Hmmm just wait til they start taxing individual gloves and masks to recoup their losses.
And how many of the March numbers were police and fire since we're the main ones on the road?
And let’s not forget our favorite “Let’s make a Deal”the Chicago way....the parking meters deal!!!! Doesn’t the city have to pay the meter company if they don’t collect a certain amount?!?!? Huuuummmm????
Groot just sell something why don’t ya... sell something big. Shit sell one mile from shore out into the lake for the entire stretch of the city to a developer, and get a company own but an alderscum and give him 100 year contract to buy all the city water from him, given the city has no water front rights.
I just trying to think of something so immorally wrong that these asshole would do it
Don't worry.
Like any well run city and state, they can tap into the rainy day fund reserves.
Already extended the plate stickers for a month. Did Groot stop City sticker sales yet ?
Guess the culture that doesn’t understand the shelter in place/social distancing concept will have any & all traffic violations excused from their future payments because of the ‘poverty’ cause...
I enjoy the hopefully temporary light traffic, but I went to the credit union on Washington to the ATM a couple of nights ago and there was an asshole on Ogden driving like he was at the Indy 500 and on the way in, more than 1 dunce passed me by jumping to hyper speed on the inbound Kennedy, dangerously passing cars. I listen to rush hour traffic reports and many days now, I hear of bad accidents on the Ike and Dan Ryan. Hey fools, how do you get into an accident in light traffic?
Somebody needs to remind this Governor idiot that Chicago is not the capital of Illinois!
Why is this goofball Governor here in Chicago and not in the capital known as Springfield, lL.!
This is what is wrong with Illinois already when politicians believe Chicago is more important than the rest of this sorry ass state!
Simply wait until the bills become due and the coffers are empty.
Reckon for every action, there is a reaction.
Wouldn't surprise me that the city and county will then raise taxes on everything across the board. Sales-Alcohol Tax, Property Taxes, Licenses, Utilities, Tickets, on and on.
Like a beggar on the street.
Somebody's got to pay! Might as well be you!
We all seem to be doing perfectly fine without Cook County government. A complete and total waste of tax payer dollars, funding those thieves.
Sure, the City will have less money. But don’t think for a second that this will stop Groot from giving away what little there is left to our illegal...l mean, undocumented communities. After all, according to democrats they are more American than the sheeple that actually PAY for all the freebies.
Green to Green, Red to Red, Perfect Safety - - Go Ahead
-Maritime Traffic Rules
Friends, SCC covers all the bases right here, unlike some
other publications here in town. How long we wonder until
Illinois goes after boaters on the Lake?
Ahoy matey, and Happy Easter to one and all. Stay safe.
Red light camera tickets down, speed camera tickets up.
(OT) this sounds familiar also how the city doesn’t care about anybody, knowing how many police officers like ourselves first responders and other people live in the Garfield Ridge area and with a virus going around, trying to keep the air clean so people can go outside and jog or run why is it the Clorox plant that was torn down and 51st St. west of Central is being used As a quarry rocks are being ground up the dust is incredible throughout the neighborhood with whatever that contains Surely it’s cancer is causing materials. Yes I’ve called the Alderman‘s office Alderman Burke the mayors office Alderman Tabares, lipinski‘s office and the rest with zero results no one seems to know what’s going on granted they did it right on the curb line in Forest view and nothing is being done about it! The old adage in Chicago is follow the money who’s getting paid take a drive by there look at it! When I see the people dragging by trying to get healthy inhaling all of that cement or in other particles which covers the neighborhood Covers the vehicles in the homes!
will the city go bankrupt from the shutdown?.
The coffers are going to run dry for the city. The boomers are going to have to construct and manipulate another way
Its all about safety you know not revenue.......
The Easter Bunny says envelopes will be light this quarter.......
Tax,tax,and more tax !!!!!!!
Cook County has a ton of money. Periwinkle out of nowhere fires the Dr who was the head of the medical department, then hires two more to replace him (double the smarts). Pandemic my ass politics as usual.
Right after 9-11, city comptroller, Walter Knorr resigned and the word at the time was that he realized the closing of Midway and OHare would devastate city finances. Loss of landing fees would be fatal to bill paying ability.
Anonymous said...
Waive the bag tax so people stop bringing their dirty bags into grocery stores....bad idea from the beginning.
4/12/2020 12:05:00 AM
Haven't shop in Chicago for 15 years 7 cents for plastic bag in Chicago? ..lol
That lost sales and use tax revenue is going to hit every homeowner, every vehicle driver, every dog owner that buys an annual tag worse than the Covid’s. And once the corrupt politicians lift this grace period to pay, there won’t be anymore late fee penalty fee waivers, doubling and compounding late fee is coming back.
Suckers are going to be squeezed to pay up and quick, not just from the city but county and state too.
Don’t rely on or even think about any debt forgiveness or special debt set aside honey pot monies like they’re doing for the sanctuarians, the zip code scofflaws and the deadbeats.
Was it just a coincidence that real estate and water bills due Mar 1 and Mar 24 were paid on time by so many responsible homeowners just to avoid the exorbitant, compounded late fees? Then a week or two later wicked evil Larri and Toenail charitably announced an extended, fee free grace period until April 30.
Bullshit.
Fcck these tyrants.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
Stay Fetal
Don’t play into the lockdown activity demands of the tyrants Larri LightLoafer & JayBee PorkKnuckle.
they call it the red line because it was made with citizens blood
One Fucking Corrupt cesspool, run by a evil, racist Weasel!
Didn’t theDaley parking meter deal have a minimum guaranteed revenue stream? What is that cost for no one parking?
How about this, name it the Pretzger law or whatever. In light of the reduced red light fines, The state will pick a number of licensed drivers from the SOS database, at random, and bill them for, say $400 each for whatever... Just to keep the revenue coming. By the time they hire lawyers and go broke many more people will benefit.....
Stay safe, the highway lottery is coming...
Lori is acting like she’s the queen. Pontificating and pandering to the Hispanic community for the smoke in little village from poor demolition. Nothing was done when politically connected henghan construction company did the same thing at the Essex construction site. I guess their donation to alderscum Sophia king made that all right. Then the judge dropped the case. Tons of information later, they were fined and Sophia is now pissed.
Sorry Groot. A 'No Parker, No Mover' policy was firmly
in place before the shit hit the fan here. And that's thanks
to you, Sweet Baby. You see, when it comes down to
keeping my badge and keeping my life, suddenly I get
writers block. It all goes back to the deluge of Alphabet
Agencies that, in a weird Twilight Zone type of way, are
actually paid for by US! So you're using my tax money
to take my livelihood away. COPA, BLM, you name it,
we're sick of it.
So here's the bottom line: I'm not your on-the-street scribe!
What conventions are going to come to Chicago after McCormick Place has been used as a hospital for Covid-19 patients? They mine as well bulldoze it now.
You really should get some legal help with the stealing issue.
Maybe Florian has some ideas?
"Lame Stream" is lazier than ever and more prone to steal
stories and ideas.
Maybe a letter to their bosses about plagiarism?
The Golden Rule?
Spanking?
If this was a teen site in the 70s you would get a suggestion
to TP their house and trees. But that stuff is like Gold now.
What about all the lost revenue from the THOUSANDS of video gambling machines set up in every venue from Legion/VFW/bar/restaurant/store front imaginable? Those machines are not 6 feet apart, and losing the state tons of money. And someone else had it right, the loss of red light/speeding revenues. The casinos closed. The loss, and the money the city will OWE to the parking meter company. Oh wait, we can kick the can further down the road and take it from the over funded pension funds, that's right! Oh shoot, maybe I can console myself and get a haircut, sorry, I'm not the face of Chicago so I can look like shit! Instead of ragging on me about her "roots" showing, I should have my wife call the mayor personally. Maybe the mayor can set something up to shut my wife up. After all, my wife is the face of our house!
Anonymous said...
I enjoy the hopefully temporary light traffic, but I went to the credit union on Washington to the ATM a couple of nights ago and there was an asshole on Ogden driving like he was at the Indy 500 and on the way in, more than 1 dunce passed me by jumping to hyper speed on the inbound Kennedy, dangerously passing cars. I listen to rush hour traffic reports and many days now, I hear of bad accidents on the Ike and Dan Ryan. Hey fools, how do you get into an accident in light traffic?
4/12/2020 05:41:00 AM
State Police not doing any traffic enforcement!
Anonymous said...
This shit has to end and soon, before they do some permanent damage to our economy.
4/12/2020 12:41:00 AM
Too late already permanent damage should have never shut it down people die everyday we still drive cars and trucks deliver goods many die in accidents.
Did we land...ahem...the tuna?
There goes the push to remove the red light cameras down the drain. They will never get rid of them now. The city and. The burbs can't afford to lose them.
For some fun, print out a bogus license plate place over your plate, then speed past speed cameras and blow some red light cameras.
Don’t forget to turn your phone off.
Anonymous said...
Thank goodness the Sgts and Lts settled at 10% and got their retro checks already. We, the scum of the pond, would be looking at 2% for 5years based on economic conditions. Great job graham crackers not going to arbitration after year one without a contract. Sgts and Lts saved your incompetent ass. City, county and state going to be in a financial nightmare scenario. Think your property taxes are high now? Here comes the free colonoscopy from Groot without the lube.
4/12/2020 12:54:00 AM
When did proctologists start using lube?!
Is the city Deferred Comp program safe from democratic politicians hands?
Red light cameras are to make money for the city or suburbs, they don't make traffic safe!!!!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Didn’t theDaley parking meter deal have a minimum guaranteed revenue stream? What is that cost for no one parking?
4/12/2020 11:33:00 AM
The cost is the same, however, a different way to pay. Thru your increased taxes next year from the comfort of your home instead of using the meters.... 6 of one, half dozen of the other, Vanecko meter co. does not care where it comes from as long as it comes.... You know, how they collected payoffs in Lets Call Saul.....if you saw it.
Did you see all the protesters driving by the jail blowing horns honking to let the prisoners out? All the ones in the news reports were non-Norwegians......????????????
Since schools are closed, shouldn't any school-related camera tickets be non-suited?
Since parks are closed, shouldn't those tickets also be non-suited?
Since throwing eggs at a car on Halloween isn't CDTP because the egg can be washed off, were some sort of Robin Hood-esque character to take a paint roller covered in petroleum jelly to a camera, would that also not be CDTP, since it can be washed off?
Those cameras are always running, and don't take a still shot until triggered, so wear a ski mask, I mean, if you were to do anything like this.
This State and City are going to be shutdown through at least October.The States and Cities with low Covid 19 numbers will open for business starting the 1st of June.The Federal Government is giving a a lot of ultimate power to local politicians as to when they will reopen their economies and remove the politically correct term of Stay at Home Order,which in reality is much closer to Martial Law, and that is a very dangerous thing if your Governor is a Democrat.Downtown Chicago will be worse than Detroit ended up and will never recover.Congrats to our Democratic Politicians.They truly did not let a crisis go to waste.
Please note , in alot of these "red-Light Camera" contracts if they do not bring in the requisite amounts of tickets , the contracting government agency has to PAY the red light camera businesses the difference in lost income. Pretty sure almost all the red cameras contracts in Illinois have this rather dubious stipulation due to the corruption surrounding them though Madigan and cronism kickbacks across the state.
Josh Randall, Wanted Dead or Alive Says:
Democrats are destroying America, with their extremest, crackpot-logic. Time to re-claim America. Enough pussyfooting around. Start jailing Lawbreakers again, and also jail any Politicians who do not agree.
The Fat Ass Gov. will push hard for the Progressive Tax come November. Fatso Ratso will send the Feds Billions of dollars for bills for China Virus. Of course the Democrats will pad the shit out of it and do their usual money scam. The only thing going for Groot is the legal dope scheme but that will run smack dab into street corner dope slingers come warmer weather.
Groot and Democrats bleeding money with no revenue in sight. Where oh where is my casino, sez the Imp. I want my money. Gimme da money. Bankruptcy in the tea leaves for the little shit. Rahm's laughing his ass off in the distance. Since old man Daley and his numb nuts son, Richie, to Rahm and now Little Larry all bankrupting the city coffers. All Democrats. All voted into office by Chicago Democrats.
Now comes the beef about inequities because China Virus impacting more black and browns due to poor health care system. All seem to forget that it was the Democrats that have given you the poor health care system that you now have. Every system that black and brown have a complaints about is administered by their own elected representatives.
Most Aldercreatures are black and brown, Mayor, CPD (Special Ed fired; and now Dallas Brown), county Health Commissioner, Revrunds, the State's Attorney, Chief Judge and other key judiciary, Crook County Prez and many Board members (another Daley Dullard on Board), State AG, and the Fat Ass Gov who is the token white guy but useless morbidly obese toilet tax evader. 50+ years of voting history for Democrats. All Democrats and all aided and abetted by lap dog media. So all the whinners and complainers stick it where the sun don't shine. You voted these bums into office, you deserve what you get. You don't like the health care system you got, blame yourself. If you don't care no one else cares.
Red light cameras are nothing more than a money generating scam. Red light cameras DON'T make traffic safe!!!!
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