(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The main sponsor of an effort to ease the city's speed camera enforcement is standing firm against a potential veto threat from Mayor Lightfoot.
Ninth Ward Ald. Anthony Beale is hoping his colleagues on the Chicago City Council will join him in trying to reverse the Lightfoot’s harsher threshold for triggering speed-cam tickets.
Beale wants to raise the ticketing threshold from 6 miles per hour over the speed limit to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.
A committee narrowly approved that measure last month. A full council vote could happen Wednesday.
Lightfoot’s has insisted her administration imposed a stricter standard in the interest of road safety, but more recently she has warned that losing ticket revenue could put pressure on the city to raise property taxes.
Beale says that supports his point that speed cameras are about the money they rake in. He said the city has levied speeding fines totaling $38 million between January and June.
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