Chicago City Council OK'd more cameras and automated tickets for blocking bus lanes. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and 2 other aldermen spearheaded the idea.
Motorists caught impeding traffic flow by blocking bus lanes, bike lanes, crosswalks and loading zones will automatically be fined for those offenses - after one warning. Citations will hit mailboxes no sooner than 30 days after the system is installed.
The first would authorize the city to ticket registered vehicle owners by mail for parking in bike lanes, bus lanes, crosswalks and bus stops. The other would use "license plate-reading camera technology" to more efficiently ticket drivers or companies who double-park or park too long in commercial loading zones.
"It'll discourage drivers from illegally parking in places that put our most vulnerable users at risk: folks on bikes, folks walking, folks in wheelchairs. These are the points of vulnerability. So we're doing everything we can to make it safe," Biagi has said.
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