Smart Streets
- Smart Streets uses cameras mounted on City vehicles, and soon also CTA buses, to achieve the following goals:
- Encourage safe driver behavior.
- Improve parking compliance to reduce crashes and pedestrian and cyclist fatalities.
- Increase transit efficiency.
- Smart Streets helps to ensure that Chicago’s growing network of bike and bus lanes are working to their full potential.
- While the initial launch of Smart Streets included bus and bike lane violations, CTA buses will also begin enforcing parking in bus stops in the summer of 2025.
- Parking violations for unpaid parking meters and commercial loading zones will be implemented in the fall of 2025.
- The City began issuing Smart Streets violations in December 2024. This pilot is currently set to expire in December 2026.
The Pilot Area is within the boundaries of Lake Michigan to Ashland Avenue and from North Avenue to Roosevelt Road.
Below is a list of the covered offenses that the City is currently enforcing, or plans to enforce in 2024, through Smart Streets. Nothing in the schedule below shall waive the applicability of any subsequent amendment to any fine amount or other penalties enacted by the City Council.
|
Violation Code |
Description of Violation |
Initial |
Late Penalty |
|
9-12-060 |
Standing, Parking, or Other Use of Bus Lane |
$90.00 |
$90.00 |
|
9-40-060 |
Parking/Standing on Bicycle Path |
$250.00 |
$0.00 |
|
9-64-140(b) |
Parking/Standing in a Bus Stop |
$100.00 |
$100.00 |
|
9-64-190(a) |
Expired Meter Non-Central Business District |
$50.00 |
$50.00 |
|
9-64-190(b) |
Expired Meter Central Business District |
$70.00 |
$70.00 |
|
9-64-190(c) |
Non Payment/Non Commercial Vehicle Parking in a Commercial Loading Zone |
$140.00 |
$110.00 |
Please click below to view photos of your Smart Streets violation. You will need the ticket number and the last name of the individual listed on the vehicle registration.
Click below to review additional options, such as paying tickets, enrolling in an online payment plan, contesting your ticket, and applying for the Clear Path Relief Program.