CHICAGO (STNG) - Mayor Daley’s plan to use video surveillance to ticket motorists who block street sweepers swept through a City Council committee Wednesday, but only after queasy aldermen got assurances about adequate warning signage.
Aldermen have reacted coolly to the city’s latest plunge into the use of surveillance cameras. They have argued that it’s unfair to hammer motorists with $50 tickets when the signs that warn them to move their cars on sweeping days are predominantly made of paper.
Deputy Streets & Sanitation Commissioner Charles Wren said blocks under video surveillance would get plenty of signs.
“In the past, they’ve put maybe three on a block. We’re instructing them to put five to six signs on a block,” Wren said.
The Daley-sponsored ordinance advanced by the Traffic Committee would kick off the sweeper experiment slowly to work out the kinks. Cameras would be installed on six of the city’s 60 sweepers.
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07/24/2008 6:34AM
Cameras on poles. Cameras on street sweepers. Cameras on snow plows.
Is this too much 'Big Brother'?
07/24/2008 7:32AM
No
NO-street cleaning needs to be done. They give advanced notice.
07/24/2008 6:14PM
Yes
I will remove my magnetic license plates from now on when i park illegally.
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