Illinois' red light cameras are sending more than a billion dollars into city coffers but a GOP lawmaker is warning the scheme could be coming at a higher cost.
FILE - A traffic sign in Palm Beach County, Fla., warns that the intersection's traffic lights are being monitored by red light cameras . With Illinois ' red light camera industry sending more than a billion dollars in revenue into city coffers, a Republican state legislator is warning the scheme could be coming at an even higher cost.
“My only worry is them getting tired of all this and causes a lot of them to leave the state,” state Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, told. “That's my worry and that's part of the reason why I even got into public office, because of all the good people I know who were just tired of bad policy and are deciding to leave because of it. Too high taxes, overregulation of business, and lack of opportunity for them and their kids, it’s a bad formula and we’re just heading down the wrong path.
“If we have that information and if it shows a decrease in incidents or accidents, then it's worthwhile,” he said. “Otherwise, these are just new revenue generating devices for local government and that's not supposed to be the intent.” Ugaste said he isn’t surprised by the findings of a Chicago Tribune study that uncovered that the Illinois Department of Transportation determined more than half of the intersections where cameras were installed were among the safest in the state before cameras were erected.
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