Money Grab and More

Here's a bright idea to go along with the ten years of destruction of the city's traffic grid after taking out hundreds of miles of serviceable traffic lanes with little used bike lanes - let's strangle the roadways by making everyone move slower!

• A measure to lower the speed limit on many Chicago streets to 25 mph from 30 mph got the green light Monday from a City Council committee, despite opponents’ fears about an increase in road rage incidents.

  The ordinance to lower speed limits on all city-owned roads was approved 8-5 by the Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety, with its chairman, 1st Ward Ald. Daniel La Spata, saying the measure “sets us on the pathway to save hundreds of lives in the next decade.”

LaSpata is full of crap - this is a money grab for the speed cameras.

There's also a "public snitch" ordinance in the offing:

• One ordinance would introduce a public enforcement pilot program that would ticket drivers based on residents’ photos of scofflaws parked in bike lanes. The yearlong pilot program would give drivers a warning in the mail for a first offense, and fines after that.

Because that won't be abused by Karens with an agenda at all.

This made is laugh out loud:

• La Spata assured the committee the goal is changing driver behavior, not increasing revenue. La Spata said the Chicago Police Department’s head of patrol told him the ordinance would not affect how police enforce speed limits.

Yeah, because CPD doesn't enforce speed limits. Anything over a certain speed is considered a "pursuit" and the Department will hang you out to dry via GPS speed measuring, and we haven't had a working radar gun in Patrol for years.