It's NOT About the Money

It's all about the safety!!!

• The Chicago Department of Transportation says the City's 188 red light cameras have made intersections safer.

  But as FOX Chicago News reports exclusively, a new UIC report finds that accidents at red-light intersections have actually gone up five percent.

  Using data provided by the Illinois Department of Transportation, Assistant Professor Rajiv Shah compared the total number of accidents the year before the cameras were installed and the year after. What surprised him most is that car accidents have declined city-wide, except at red-light intersections.

How can that be? The mayor, city council and CDOT wouldn't lie to us, would they?

Oh yeah, right. They would. Sorry. We forgot we were in Chicago for a second. Who was it that said this was just a money grab by Shortshanks? If we recall correctly, that would have been just about everybody.