Chicago drivers who may have wrongly received automated tickets from the city’s red light cameras may be eligible for a refund. IPR’s Alex Keefe has details.
A Chicago Tribune investigation found mysterious spikes in the number of red light tickets generated by cameras at several city intersections.
City Hall says it’s still looking at the data, but says tickets may have increased where traffic was re-routed for construction or bad weather.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the city’s sending letters to about 9-thousand drivers who got the hundred dollar tickets, giving them another chance to appeal.
"There should be no inequity in the system. There should be no aberration. And a company, even though it’s a small percentage, less than one percent, it has to be 100 percent right for there [to] be trust."
The Tribune’s investigation found the number of tickets generated by some cameras would spike - sometimes tenfold, only to drop again days later. Emanuel’s administration says those cases are anomalies, but still can’t explain why they happened.