Articles filed under Transportation
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Cook County may stick suburbs with red-light intersectionsJul 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Cook County may require suburbs that opt out of its red-light cameras to take over all the costly maintenance of those intersections. Suburban officials signaled they wo...
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Use of red-light cameras should have a plan for revenues, follow throughJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Most people know that our nation, state and in most cases local towns are facing a paradox of colossal proportions: We're spending faster than we're earning. Population ...
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Wheeling opts out of Cook Co. red-light camera programJun 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Wheeling isn't against red-light cameras, but they are against Cook County telling them where to install them. On Monday, the village board became the latest suburb to o...
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Taking right way on red-light camerasJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Today, we're pleased to offer a tale with positive lessons and a happy ending. A few weeks ago, Cook County commissioners made it known they were about to usurp the loca...
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Cook board lets suburbs opt out of red light camerasJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Reacting to a backlash from angry suburbs, the Cook County Board agreed Tuesday to let towns opt out of its plan to install red-light cameras at certain intersections. ...
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Let's boycott makers of red-light camerasJun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Imagine my excitement when I opened up the newspaper and found that the Cook County Board has launched a barrage of red light cameras. As a Schaumburg resident I will be...
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Schaumburg fighting Cook County over traffic camerasJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Schaumburg apparently became the first municipality to fight Cook County over the installation of red-light cameras with an ordinance prohibiting them without village ap...
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Two Cook commissioners join fight to delay red-light cameras in suburbsJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Two Cook County commissioners are now proposing that the county board hold off on installing its own red-light cameras in the suburbs. Commissioner Larry Suffredin of Ev...
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Arlington Heights hopes to outlaw county red-light camerasJun 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Anger over Cook County's plan to install red light cameras at three intersections in Arlington Heights led the village board Monday to propose an ordinance outlawing the...
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Suburbs poised to fight Cook County on red light camerasJun 03, 2010 11:00 pm - The Cook County Board's recent approval of red-light cameras at 30 locations in the suburbs is drawing the ire of several affected towns. Not least of which is Schaumbur...