Cameras are for Safety!
Unless they can pull double duty - then all bets are off:
Chicago alders are set to take up traffic enforcement and city borrowing rules during a City Council meeting Wednesday.
Alders are expected to vote on the "Smart Streets Camera Enforcement Program," which would expand the use of automated cameras mounted on poles and CTA buses.
The cameras would photograph vehicles blocking traffic lanes, meters and dedicated bike lanes. Those violations could lead to tickets being mailed to drivers.
A double-parking violation could result in a $90 fine, even if a vehicle blocks a lane for only a minute. Blocking a dedicated bike lane could lead to a $250 fine.
We know they've had cameras on the street-sweepers for years now, ticketing cars that the sweepers are forced to drive around when cleaning the traffic lanes. We understand expanding that program to CTA buses to catch cars parked in bus stops.
But
- the almost completely useless bike lanes,
- the near-impossibility of parking properly around those concrete barricades,
- or business owners taking bottom-line hits when customers can't park within walking distance to the store...
that's got to be effecting tax collections at some level, far more than the parking ticket revenue.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
63 Comments:
The end of the license plate
What about the delivery drivers? The utilities trucks attending to emergencies? USPS? I can think of more, but you get the idea.
Great plan. Take away all the taxpayers paid parking places then robo fine them for stopping to kick mom outta the car to shop. Brilliant plan old boy . Gotta give it conhead the magnificent, he's a man with a plan. Is their a program for the disenfranchised and oppressed in their escalade?
They should enforce the traffic laws bicyclists are supposed to follow when riding their bikes. Imagine if the laws were enforced when they ride through a solid red light or stop sign? They don’t realize that they too are to obey the traffic laws. Register their bikes annually, get a placard/plate, city sticker while they’re at it. It would be nice if they funded their own bike lanes since they want them so bad.
Bicyclists always cry victim, yet, have no accountability to hold up their end of things.
F the bike lanes . and all the ruining of well designed infrastructure for crap reasons and $.
Sad. I stopped supporting Chicago business owners because of the parking money grab.
Rahm and his great idea of useless bike lanes, all to make us like Chy-nah getting around in our 15 minute city in the dead of winter with a foot of snow on the ground. And what about his brother Ezekiel being an instrumental architect in developing 0bamacare? You would think they were part of some globalists plot implementing the plan to destroy western civilization and bring us down to the third world’s level. There, I said it.
It's not just getting the money, it's "who" is getting the money. Chicago SOP.
"Trump admin pulls Illinois bike grants it deems ‘hostile’ to cars"
By
Jeff McMurray
Associated Press
News
Published
September 27, 2025 9:20 AM CDT
At: Fox32Chicago.com
The connected contractors are making loads of money providing bike lanes for the City of Chicago. And who do you think they are making political donations to. The City has no money for this folly which is impeding motorists every day of the week.
Half the cars on the road either have destroyed bullshit paper tags or no tags at all.
Only the working sucker has a legit plate these days.
Nothing but a money grab in the land of the lawless.
They should be used for bikers that ride like assholes which most of them do. The city messed up all the roads just for bikers but the bikers don't have to pay a dime. Make them register their bikes every year for $1,000.
No shot spotters that actually helped people from Ewing kilt! Who is the connected company getting these now? Bet our going to see more “altered” plates the type that the paint “ wore off” or no plates at all!
How about we eliminate bike lanes? They are stupid and a nuisance. Bikes don't pay taxes for street repair.
My "kid" put a Frozen sticker on my license plate covering one of the digits, I've told her over and over, don't do that.
Dont forget the shoulder riders on the 290. You could fine just 10 bucks between downtown and Austin and still balance the budget in 6 months. Its like the west side's private lane.
Let the pilot program begin in hyde park on 53rd st.
Remember what the mayors have said in the past..."Its all about safety"...Bullshit! Just like CPS saying its all about the children...more bullshit. Funny how these DemoRats come up with ways to make more money but yet keep raising taxes.
I have a question. Has anyone received a street cleaning ticket from a street sweeper recently ??
Im wondering because last week there were 5 cars on my block and I didn’t see any tickets on the cars and no meter maids.
30 ward
Vigilante pellet guns.
More 3rd world crap. Might as well recall Mayor jonson for hi sullen incompetence , and replace him with a honorabe Somalian, while you're at it. I hear they are good at accounting.
Your last sentence proves the bicyclists feckless liberals...
Call Alderman's office and the District when the cars are parked there first street sweeping. I have found that they are more than happy to send someone to hang some tickets on the cars. And yeah, the manhole covers get blocked with leaves. If these idiots don't move their cars That's why I call.
Look at this district here, closing schools getting rid of staff that’s not needed moving students in the schools that are way under capacity we could save literally hundreds of millions in Chicago. We have way under the amount of students. We need way over teachers and personnel probably billions being wasted take this as an example of good governorship.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/10/14/district-65-budget-cuts-plan-school-closures/
Ive been saying the same thing for yrs...If the city wants to make more money, then make bicyclists get special licenses as well...$20 a yr to renew. Of course all the green space and climate people will be crying foul...bicyclists should also carry ins!!!
Don’t forget, though the scooter law, the electric scooter law that JB put in starting January 1 they must have a license who is going to enforce that who is gonna stop anybody nobody stopped anyway do whatever you want blow stop sign speed whatever but the cameras will bring in a lot of revenue. Nothing like going after the same people you’re asking for their votes.
Nope...meter maids are getting lazy too or should i say even lazier...most but not all.
OT: I see that one of the referendums on the ballot in Nov will be if residents want the city to bring back Shot Spotter...I can almost guarantee all liberals will be saying NO..since it doesnt affect their own backyard. Another will be should the City develop a permanent location festival and outdoor space event for "Large-Scale Events"? Third, should the City pursue all lawful means to recover financial compensations form Midway Blitz and other Ice Operations from the Federal Government? If residents vote yes on the location of large scale events...OMG the LGBTQ community will be Screaming if they cant have their parade in their own neighborhood. Boo Hoo
State problem
Didnt help revenue when the city sold the rights to parking meters for 75 years either.
What happens when delivery companies refuse to just deliver to any businesses because of all the pimpy tickets and then the business will be forced to go out of business and NO Tax revenues for this stupid city!
Wait ? That bike lane is actually for bikes ? I thought it was for passing on the right at red lights.
My wife works for Finance dept and be aware that if a squad car or unmarked is caught they will be forwarding it to the unit to have an officer pay the ticket. If you are on a call or emergency situation and parked you will need to have that documentation and contest the ticket.
Double parkers are a menace
I did because of the taxes
Bike lanes are equally stupid as the hippies who use them.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
Benjamin Franklin
Yep, make it a 1,00 fine and that will stop in a month.
Bicyclists, example of a powerful lobbying group that represents approximately 1.5% of the commuter population. The other 98.5% of the population is at their demands
People will be up in arms over flock cameras but won’t blink an eye to something that will literally nickel and dime them to death
and for some reason those tickets were never issued around the alderman's houses
The street sweeper vehicle has cameras mounted inside to record your vehicle parked as the street sweeper goes around it. A DEI hire from fr flakers church reviews the video and then sends and image of your vehicle parked in violation of street sweeping to a company by the name of R Vanecko citations.
A $250.00 bike lane fine. Lets assume a $17.05 minimum wage earner violator is in a 10% minimum fed income tax bracket , pays a 4.95% MyIllinois state income tax, has a 6.2% social security tax investment and pays 1.45% for Medicare for all taken out of their payroll check leaving a worker with just 77% of their gross wages. It would take almost 19 hours of sweat equity wages to pay for a bicycle lane violation! That's about half of a full time 40 hour work week! Government money strong-armed to squander by politician nobility denying a low wage earner the ability to put food sustenance on the table for one's family. City government leaders are truly humanitarians and so compassionate.
Is this the compassion in action democrat poll tested "affordability" practiced by this ruling King, his majesty, Little Johnson and his noble aldercreatures demanded under threat for his merry, subordinate unwashed masses? Just surrender your remaining gold and silver coins to the municipal Crown on time or have your fines doubled in 30 days and risk a possible Denver boot leading up to personal property vehicle impoundment confiscation with an additional $500 impoundment fee tax and daily compounding interest. Pay up your bike lane fine with additional all of the fees or we will crush your car for nonpayment. Who needs Capone era type thug ganstas when you routinely have Chicago government strong arming its citizens legit, legally. These are your government representatives who advocate and put into action your interests and are responsive to the needs of the barely existing working class people. Voodoo math from you elected democrat socialists in charge.
They have tried that before what a bunch of idiotic nonsense they send the red light tickets to the district just more stupidity. Have you seen how slow the ambulances are going to call I’m sure many people know so don’t know that if an ambulance is involved in an accident no matter what even if the ambulance is parked going on an emergency call block in the street or whatever whatever and somebody hits it. They will give the driver 30 days. That’s why the ambulances go like 20 miles an hour to the call. Pray you’re not the one that needs to get to Hospital and Emergency. You can thank the Democrats. I got a friend who’s out in round Lake Illinois went out to visit him works with the ambulances. We saw an ambulance go by probably going 50 miles an hour. He said that’s what they do. They get the person it’s critical care as soon as possible where is here you can just die.
Don’t forget the plates that have been sanded down, but the owner of the car will tell you I don’t know what happened. It’s just the plates are delaminating so many different ways of getting around it. Look at the license plate using special paint to altering them. nobody gives a shit State police used to stop him on the highway, but then there’s no state police there. The highways are now the freeways which are now the speedways goes fast as you want. Use the curb lanes. Nobody cares. Use the shoulders go as fast as you want.
The streets in Chicago were designed a long time ago for the automobile, truck and bus (or previously, a horse drawn wagon and trolley car). You just can't cram a bike lane in where it won't fit.
Same here, I shop in a neighboring state now where gas is 30 cents a gallon cheaper and the sales tax on consumer goods isn’t as high. Illinois criminal politicians outsmarted themselves again but what do they care, they just vote themselves a nice salary increase regularly.
You have to endorse flock cameras mounted on buses to enhance municipal revenues. Imagine the revenue stream for city hall! Flock cameras LLC can generate windfall profits offsetting the expense of their public safety surveillance cameras and rising data storage costs for said cameras forming that public /private partnership in a win-win for all those intimately involved.
Don’t forget his psycho brother Ari, who literally eats worms for breakfast [check his new memoir] & uses his media contacts as a top Hollywood agent to endlessly push “news stories” about how Rahm is a viable candidate for President in 2028. Ha!
This Tuesday 010 windshields were full of tickets for street sweeping, so yeah, someone’s still doing it, at least in the Latin hoods.
Implement more intrusive cameras schemes for profit. Pay up or else. The city needs to utilize private tools such as connected debt collection agencies under threat of reporting of unpaid parking/traffic camera bills to the three credit bureaus turning the screws on non payment civilian villains. Imagine the threat of a lower credit score with reported unpaid heinous government parking citations for hardworking duped loyal democrat voters.
These real threats of credit bureau credit rating downgrades can lead to higher mortgage rates, higher insurance rates through computer generated algorithm risk assessments by permissible credit bureau reporting practices shared with underwriting companies, higher auto loan rates based on reported risks profiles (and possible reported vehicle impoundments), be discoverable and exposed by human resource recruiting companies dirtying up parking violators in a credit check affecting employment character profiling, and may make parking criminal non payment offenders less attractive for rent/lease agreements all come to mind. After all, its just public information collected on you funded by taxpayer paid cameras leading to business intelligence for risk mitigaters. Wake up America! Its the money first. And the seemingly innocent information sharing that can financially impact your life in so many ways. Brought to you by government leadership through a mutual public/private partnership.
And the plastic bag fee.
The CTA should be concerned with the public safety threats that have resulted in deaths to its patrons and its very own dedicated employees. Not to mention bodily disfigurements/great bodily harm involving riders set on fire, patrons suffering gunshots wounds, assorted stabbings, teen takeover wildings, patrons pushed in front of moving trains, and daily robberies. Generating/capturing photos for parking fines and revenue collections seems to be of upmost importance to the seated city's supervisors. The safety of American citizens on one of the nation's largest transit systems takes a seat in the back of the bus.
Traffic tickets will get paid and government resources will be prioritized to get this job done by any means. Contrast this with the everyday habitual criminal shoplifter who is caught and receives a cashless bail thanks to Democrat Socialist Gov Pritzker signing the Safe-T Act into law. How many times has this offender boosted with a minuscule amount of offenses resulting in an arrest. No cash bail, no punitive monetary skin in the game and a taxpayer paid lawyer to boot. Out on cashless bail and out of jail. Then a $258,158.00 a year salaried Cook County Circuit Court judge can't wait to dismiss this case to clear the court call and continue on with his/her/they three hour working day.
Get that ticket and pay a fine or risk additional fees or vehicle non-payment seizure protocols. Who gets a greater government imposed punishment? The registered owner of a lawfully registered vehicle owing your municipal government a $250 parking fine or the shoplifting offender bankrupting retailers who are racking up inventory shrinkage losses threatening closure and a loss of jobs resulting in merchandise deserts and yes, loss of collection streams of government imposed taxes. Let that sink in. Social justice will be served.
All the bike lanes make it even worse. Nowhere to park and traffic all jammed up. Tear out 90% of bike lanes.
There’s nothing stopping any copper from writing bicyclists any of many traffic violations.
That’s because liberals think it’s only Trump using flock cameras.
Only one problem there Einsteins ! Those fines ain't ever getting paid !
They dont even follow the rules
It was, now concrete in the way
They have been saying that for decades…
NO to all referendums. Always.
Win-win? Not for the taxpayers.
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