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The city of Cleveland has installed traffic cameras but the cities of Lorain and Elyria may not be next. In Lorain, Mayor Craig Foltin does not see the cameras as beneficial.

"I do not like them," says Foltin, "they are not being used for safety; they are being used for revenue, which I think is wrong."

Foltin also says that he has no plans of submitting anything regarding traffic cameras to the city council.

He says that traffic cameras are "another form of taxing the people without their say."

When asked if anyone had contacted the Lorain city council about investigating traffic cameras in the city, Clerk of Council, Nancy Greer, said that, "we have not had any discussion on that matter."

Elyria is the Lorain county seat and gets a lot of traffic going to the courts, stores and office buildings.

When asked if Elyria was going to install traffic cameras Assistant Safety/Service Director, Matt Lundy said, "We have not had any discussion as of late."  Lundy also said that "there has been no inquiry from residents about it."

Elyria Engineer's Traffic Technician, Don Wimsatt said that, "there is nothing planned or studied for such devices in the city of Elyria."

For now the cities of Lorain and Elyria are not going to have any traffic cameras installed.  If the issue ever becomes a reality, each city may have to consider the costs, revenues and safety concerns that may arise

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