Rochester City Council has rescheduled its public forum on a proposal to eliminate the city’s red-light camera program. It’s at 5:15 p.m. on Monday, December 19, in Council chambers at City Hall, 30 Church Street.
The forum was originally scheduled for Thursday, December 15, but was postponed due to a snowstorm.
Mayor Lovely Warren has introduced legislation to eliminate the city’s red-light camera program at midnight on December 31 — when the city’s contract with the camera provider ends. Outstanding tickets and tickets received up to and including December 31 must still be paid.
Warren says that the program has a disproportionate impact on the poor and that it’s not clear that the program is achieving its objective of making intersections safer.
This article appears in Dec 14-20, 2016.
