The bill, co-sponsored by representatives Stephen Humphrey and Jovan Melton, would repeal the right for local jurisdictions to use all automated vehicle identification systems, including photo radar vans and red-light cameras.
The city is relying ever more on crazy-efficient photo enforcement, in the form of red-light cameras at four intersections and roving speed-radar vans that generated nearly 173,000 mailed citations last year.
If you are among the untold millions who feel a cold chill of dread as you approach a red-light camera intersection on a stale green light with an SUV bearing down your tail, try to breathe into a paper bag as we work through the logistics of a rather significant local development on that whole anxious deal.
Cedar Rapids quietly discontinued a controversial collection initiative in which people owing money for unpaid automated traffic camera tickets had their debt turned over to the state, which in turn withheld their state income tax returns.