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Article: Stop! Red-light cameras multiply
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 4, 2008
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Motorists who run red lights or park in the path of Chicago's 118 street sweepers will have a far greater chance of getting caught thanks to $59.2 million in contracts awarded last month.
Arizona-based Redflex Traffic Systems has installed red-light cameras at 69 accident-prone Chicago intersections since 2003. Now the company will do the same at 60 more intersections this year and roughly 220 more by 2012 under a five-year, $52 million contract.
The first six new cameras will be installed at: 47th and Cicero; 47th and Kedzie; Belmont and Halsted; Belmont and Lake Shore Drive; 79th and Halsted, and 115th and Halsted.
"We want to get to 10 percent of our 2,900 signalized intersections . . . ...