How Police and Traffic Light Companies Are Conspiring to Give You More Tickets

[ieoeja]

34. Biggest improvement in Chicago is the addition of timers.

I absolutely love intersections with timers. I remember a lot of people predicting they would cause people to speed up to beat the clock. I have observed and experienced just the opposite.

When a light turns yellow without timers I have to make a snap judgement on whether to brake hard or speed up. If I believe the braking will be too sudden, I go with speed up as the safer choice. At intersections with timers that problem only occurs if I'm not paying attention (in which case it is my own damn fault).

As to the cameras ... I don't see much of a problem. And I'm an aggressive driver. I know exactly one guy who complained about getting unfairly ticketed. But he also believes that his license plate indicating he is a veteran means he is exempt from all parking regulations and frequently gets upset over having to pay a parking ticket. In other words, he's an idiot.

I got a parking ticket once for not having a residential zone City Sticker. The officer placed the ticket on my front window directly over ... my residential zone City Sticker. I wrote on a piece of paper, "this ticket was placed right over my correct city sticker. The officer must have spaced out." I put the paper in the ticket, mailed it back, and that was that. I didn't offer any further evidence because they already have me in their computers as having the correct sticker.

I see people get so bent out of shape over this type of thing. I literally laughed it off. Chicago is incredibly reasonable when it comes to ticketing.

The 'burbs on the other hand....