Just as one place looks to dump speed cameras, another looks to pick them up.

Des Plaines out in Illinois is looking to add red light cameras to its intersections, but here’s the interesting part of the whole affair: the mayor doesn’t want them.

Now that’s freaky–the mayor doesn’t want the cameras, but the city’s going ahead anyway?  Not the kind of thing that happens with any regularity.

The city’s original plan was to place cameras at two locations that featured large numbers of accidents.  But in a new twist, the first camera will be placed at neither of these two locations, and instead in an intersection that had relatively few accidents. And a second is expected to go up, but no one’s sure where yet.  It doesn’t seem like the original two intersections will get their cameras.

The trouble comes when the mayor read a local newspaper’s investigation that detailed the possibility that the cameras aren’t placed for accident prevention, but for revenue generation.

An exciting development, no mistake–but I look forward to seeing how it all boils down.

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