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12.02.2008 2:18 pm

Aldermen aren’t sold on plan to divy-up cash from traffic cameras

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Aldermen Charles Quincy Troupe and Freeman Bosley Sr. both have separate plans to parse out revenue from red-light traffic cameras — and both of their ideas seem stuck on yellow.

Bosley wants 20 percent of the city’s take on the tickets– which, once the camera company takes its third of the $100 fine, equals about $13.40 — placed in the capital spending account of the ward where the violation occurred.

Troupe’s evolving plan, heard by the aldermanic Ways and Means Committee, seeks all of the $67 the city gets on each infraction to be divided among neighborhood spending, anti-gang programs and adminstrative costs.

However, Troupe’s plan, like Bosley’s, will have a tough time getting out of committee. Alderman Fred Wessels, one of the board’s leading budget hawks, warned that this is no time to be diverting money from the city’s general fund.

Alderman Stephen Gregali said plainly he was against the plan, while Committee Chairman Steve Conway suggestion the proposed legislation is veering from the intended use of red-light cameras, of which there are more than 40 of around the city.

“We are supposed to be treating it like a safety issue,” Conway said. “The money should be secondary.”

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I was told that tickets were void if the Photo sign did not accompany the red-light camera. Is this true? And, I’d like to know where the more than 40 red-light cameras are located throughout the city.

— barbara martin
5:16 pm December 2nd, 2008

…………thanks for the indirect warning, just another reason for me to stay out of St. Louis City.

— crashtest
7:05 pm December 2nd, 2008