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Elgin’s quest to install red light cameras has hit yet another stop sign.<\/p>\nElgin’s quest to install red light cameras has hit yet another stop sign.<\/p>\n
Kane County transportation officials have denied a city request to install red light cameras for southbound traffic at three Randall Road intersections: Big Timber Road, Bowes Road and Route 72.<\/p>\n
“We continue to strike out,” said Elgin Deputy Police Chief Robert Beeter. “I find it hard to believe we can’t get them approved for Randall Road.” <\/span><\/p>\n Mayor Ed Schock also said he was “perplexed” by the county’s decision, issued late last year.<\/p>\n “I was surprised,” he said. “Randall Road is a very dangerous road. … There is not much we can say about it really. It is what it is.”<\/p>\n According to data provided to the county’s division of transportation, those three areas just aren’t dangerous enough.<\/p>\n Kurt Nika, KDOT’s chief of permitting, said only two motorists going southbound at Randall and Bowes ran the red light during an eight-hour, weekday test period and the intersection had zero crashes in the last four years directly caused by someone headed southbound running the light.<\/p>\n Randall and Big Timber had six southbound red-light violations in eight hours and one southbound crash in four years, Nika said.<\/p>\n In 2008, the state installed left-turn-only arrows at Randall and Route 72 and crashes dropped at what was once deemed the county’s most dangerous intersection.<\/p>\n Nika said the intersection had two southbound red-light violations in an eight-hour period and county officials didn’t have recent enough crash data to make an assessment since the new traffic signal was installed.<\/p>\n To contrast, the southbound lanes of Randall and Route 38 in St. Charles – where a red-light camera has been approved by the county – saw 130 violations in a 12-hour span and three crashes in the last four years caused by southbound motorists running red lights.<\/p>\n Nika noted there are no nationally recognized traffic standards when it comes to red light cameras.<\/p>\n “Local agencies like KDOT use engineering judgment to determine what’s appropriate,” he said. “We’re definitely willing to reconsider the (Elgin) matter in the future. What we need is updated data.”<\/p>\n While red-light cameras have popped up in numerous towns across the Fox Valley, five county intersections have received the thumbs up so far.<\/p>\n St. Charles has permission to install cameras at Kirk Road and Route 64, along with Randall and Route 38.<\/p>\n In Geneva, cameras have the go-ahead for Fabyan Parkway and Kirk Road, along with two intersections along Randall at Williamsburg Avenue and Fargo Road.<\/p>\n The latter two are scheduled to become operational on Feb. 21, marking the first pair on county roads, Nika said.<\/p>\n The denial leaves Elgin with zero intersections nearly two years after inking a deal with the Arizona-based Redflex to install, monitor and maintain the cameras.<\/p>\n “We’ve identified them, but we’ve run into problems with the environment,” Beeter said.<\/p>\n In early 2008, city officials came up with a list of 13 possible intersections for Redflex to evaluate.<\/p>\n But in February 2009, city leaders said three intersections for cameras would not work for various reasons.<\/p>\n The city has intersection improvements planned for Dundee Avenue and Summit Street and didn’t want to install cameras only to remove them later.<\/p>\n Also, train-arm signals would have interfered with the red-light cameras at eastbound and westbound Big Timber Road and McLean Boulevard and westbound Kimball Street at State Street, or Route 31.<\/p>\n Schock said he still supports cameras where they can improve safety. He also noted that pedestrians are in the most danger of being struck by a motorist who fails to make a complete stop before turning right on a red light.<\/p>\n “If they prevent accidents and improve safety, I think they’re worth it,” he said.<\/p>\n Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Elgin’s quest to install red light cameras has hit yet another stop sign. Kane County transportation officials have denied a city request to install red light cameras for southbound traffic at three Randall Road intersections: Big Timber Road, Bowes Road and Route 72. “We continue to strike out,” said Elgin Deputy Police Chief Robert Beeter. 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