Mayor Lori Lightfoot allies block vote to change Chicago’s speed camera ticket threshold
Chicago speed cameras will continue to issue tickets for drivers going as little as 6 mph over the limit — for now — after Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s allies used a parliamentary maneuver Wednesday to delay a vote on raising the minimum for speeding citations.
Concerns about racial inequity in how speed camera tickets are issued were among reasons cited by those who have sought to reimpose the higher minimum. Lopez, of the 15th Ward, is among several declared candidates seeking to unseat Lightfoot next year when she’s up for reelection. Nonetheless, the new standards have proven lucrative and drawn loud rebukes from Beale and others who contend the mayor is trying to balance Chicago’s books on the backs of poor and working-class residents who can ill afford the new $35 tickets each time they get busted.Advertisement
Lightfoot included the change within her massive 2021 budget package, so aldermen did not have to vote on it specifically then. Now they are being forced to choose sides on a divisive issue not long before many of them face voters.
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