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Friday, June 22, 2007 12:00 AM

A Chicago pol wants you to run more red lights

An alderman says that a new device to alert drivers to red-light cameras will hurt Chicago's revenues.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Friday, June 22, 2007 03:16 PM

    What's this? An ACCURATE title?

    When I read about this article on boingboing.net, I was expecting it to be a wilful misinterpretation of the (probably correct) argument that fear of cameras increases obedience to red lights. No surprise if it had been, a fair amount of "X wants you to Y!" articles on the internet are based on that type of (rather irritating) premise. But lo and behold, it's actually true! He does want people to keep running red lights! Quelle surprise!

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