Chicago triples the 'grace period' for running red lights
Posted March 19, 2017 11:00 pm
Chicago motorists caught on camera blowing through red lights will have triple the "grace period" before being slapped with $100 tickets, under a change made Monday that could reduce the number of tickets issued by nearly a third.
Last year, the city issued 586,415 red-light tickets - and about 29 percent of those went to motorists who entered the intersection between one-tenths and three-tenths of a second after the light had turned red.
By tripling the "grace period" to three-tenths of a second - as suggested by the Northwestern University Traffic Center - the city is likely to issue 29 percent fewer tickets, according to Transportation Commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld.
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