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Hey X50, if you happen to run across one in your travels along 64, please advise the frequency it's running on.
Will do , I'M curious too, I'll find out sooner or later. I don't drive past Madison too often.
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Is the work zone still going on around mm15?
I believe it's in O'Fallon, IL area still
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OK, I was over there about a month ago and it was still going on. They're sure taking their time. Any idea what they're doing?Originally Posted by StlouisX50
Wasting tax dollars? :roll:
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Good call.Originally Posted by StlouisX50
Some of the roads in this area are getting bad. There's one that goes to the college I will be attending next year with potholes big enough to get lost in.
Work-zone speeders can't outrun cop camera
By Jon Hilkevitch
Tribune transportation reporter
Published May 23, 2006
Three white vans outfitted with high-resolution cameras are nabbing drivers who violate the 45 m.p.h. speed limit in Illinois highway construction zones, triggering $375 tickets and a court summons by certified mail, officials said Monday.
The mass-enforcement effort netted hundreds of speeders on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Saturday, the first day that Illinois State Police troopers in a van used the cameras and radar guns.
Use of the new policing tool is likely to greatly increase the 5,000 speeding tickets issued to drivers on the Ryan since the expressway reconstruction project started last month, said State Police Capt. Peter Negro.
He said the main goal is getting drivers to slow down, not trying to rake in money for the state through rapid-fire ticketing.
Authorities say they hope to enhance safety by convincing lead-footed drivers that the odds of getting away with speeding are now against them.
If that fails, officials expressed confidence that the ticketing program, authorized under a new state law aimed at putting the brakes on rampant speeding in work zones, will be upheld in court.
The Illinois program is being launched after officials studied photo enforcement in communities in several other states. But Illinois' three photo vans represent the first statewide effort in the U.S. to use the technology, said State Trooper Jeff Darko, who was involved in the planning.
In addition to the van on the Ryan, a second van is being deployed this week in work zones on the Kingery Expressway and the Illinois Tollway system, starting on the southern portion of the Tri-State Tollway (Interstate Highway 294), Negro said. The vans eventually will patrol other Chicago-area work zones.
State troopers on motorcycles are also patrolling construction zones to catch speeders and aggressive drivers, part of the multi-faceted campaign to reduce the number of accidents and squelch widespread speeding, officials said.
"Speeding in construction zones is one of the primary reasons people are killed," Illinois Transportation Secretary Timothy Martin said.
There were 26 fatalities, including a construction worker, in work-zone accidents statewide last year, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
The 45 m.p.h. construction-zone speed limit and $375 fine are in effect around the clock, but the photo-enforcement vans are used only when workers are present, officials said.
The photo process is triggered automatically when the radar detects a speeding vehicle. One camera photographs the driver; a second camera shoots the license plate. One trooper in the van supervises the process.
Drivers receive a ticket showing their speed recorded by radar, the location of the violation, copies of the photos and the date of a mandatory court appearance. Convictions are reported to the secretary of state's office, and they go on a driver's record.
"Their insurance rates will go up," Martin said.
The fine increases to $1,000 and a 90-day driver's license suspension for subsequent violations under the tougher work-zone speeding fines. The fines had been $200 for a first offense, increasing to $350 for a second violation.
The program differs from the cameras placed at some Chicago intersections to record drivers running red lights. Those violations are treated similar to a parking ticket. Violators can pay the fine or request an administrative hearing.
The vans are parked on shoulders of work zones.
Tickets are not issued while the vans are moving, officials said.
The new law requires signs to be posted informing motorists of photo enforcement ahead. But the vans are designed to record the speed of a car from as far as 180 feet away, leaving little time for drivers to reduce speed after spotting a white van.
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