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Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included road funding, state budget, income tax cuts, broadband expansion, school calendars, local option sales taxes, medical marijuana, eminent domain, banning traffic cameras, and a sales tax increase.

In the meantime, existing traffic engineering countermeasures such as red light cameras and roundabouts also appear to get drivers to slow down and pay more attention to surrounding traffic (see Status Report special issue: red light running, Feb. 1, 2011, and «When roadway design options are wide open, why not build a roundabout?»

Some believe that red light cameras are being used solely to increase revenue to the city — by issuing additional traffic tickets, fines payable to the city increase and the city experiences a substantial influx of cash.

There are many reasons, but at the very top of the list might simply be that red light camera tickets, unlike any other traffic ticket, are often issued to the person who was not driving.

If a person receives a Notice to Appear (traffic citation) in the mail for a violation related to a photo red light camera, the notice will be issued by the actual Police Department, but is typically mailed by the photo red light vendor that the city contracts with.

More than 27,000 traffic tickets were issues by red light cameras, as well.

The Tribune investigation of the traffic camera programs also revealed how the Emanuel administration ordered the new camera vendor to issue tickets even when yellow light times dipped below the three - second minimum requirement, how Emanuel's new speed camera program has tagged drivers in school zones without the legally required evidence of a child present, and how many of the most lucrative speed cameras were placed on major thoroughfares where few pedestrians are hit by speeding cars.