In the first two months of Chicago’s new “6mph over the speed limit” threshold, the city has whipped up over 300,000 tickets. Earlier in the year, the city said the regulations, bumped down from 10 miles per hour, are in response to “an alarming increase in vehicle speeding and traffic fatalities.” This amount of tickets came out to a total of $11.3 million, aka a lot of money.
The revenue is almost a 17-hold increase over the same two months in 2019 when the city was issuing tickets for 10 miles per hour and over.
