MachineMan

"100 Days of Heat"

Beginning Memorial Day weekend, Illinois State Police District 15 will turn up the "heat" with special enforcement details for 100 days ending with the Labor Day Holiday weekend. Called "100 Days of Heat," the effort is a comprehensive traffic safety program during the busy summer construction and travel months. The effort includes the ongoing Operation Hard Hat details to catch speeders in work zones. That's where police pose as construction workers with radar equipment. Systemwide efforts are also in force to ticket speeders, DUIs and overweight trucks using unmarked police cruisers, aircraft, portable weigh stations and officers on motorcycles, a first for the Illinois Tollway. And, don't forget the photo speed enforcement vans coming soon. So, the "heat" will be on this summer

221Sean

More officers on the road IS good for safety. We all slow down in the presence of johnny law & those extra officers WILL find DUIs / idiots / etc.

Posing as construction workers is B.S. (!)

This is same as the intersection cameras posted to catch you in the intersection as the light turns red. NOT a safety issue - there ARE more dangerous intersections, but not more consistently ticketable intersections.

gragravar

thanks for the heads up, I'll need to remember that when I head out that way this summer.

shaggymatt

Radar is run sometimes from PennDOT trucks. Supposedly (I've never seen it) they've done it with ambulances as well.

blackIIIroad

However, Police can only pursue using construction equipment ie: steam-roller, paving-trowler, etc.