{"id":284280,"date":"2025-10-07T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284280\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:54:14","slug":"72-drivers-ticketed-in-past-week-for-using-shoulders-to-beat-traffic-cook-county-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284280\/","title":{"rendered":"72 Drivers Ticketed In Past Week For Using Shoulders To Beat Traffic, Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Drivers who try to cut through traffic by riding on the shoulder on local expressways are now getting ticketed through a new program.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office ticketed 72 drivers for illegally riding on expressway shoulders as part of enhanced patrols launched late last month. The sheriff\u2019s office has issued over 900 citations for the offense since late June, a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The emphasis on enhanced expressway patrols is meant to address \u201congoing concerns about unsafe driving,\u201d according to a video posted on the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s X account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video stressed the danger of using the shoulder to bypass other vehicles, as doing so could catch other drivers by surprise and lead to collisions. Convictions related to driving on the shoulder could lead to fines of up to $1,000, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office has previously enforced the law but recently stepped up patrols, including with the use of a new police helicopter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sep. 26, the sheriff\u2019s office pulled over and ticketed more than 100 drivers \u201cin just a few hours,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CookSheriffIL\/status\/1971699390013145524\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">post<\/a> on the office\u2019s X account. Of those drivers, 49 were captured on video riding the shoulder by a new sheriff\u2019s office police helicopter. The office has also said that officers will be looking for speeding, driving under the influence, texting while driving and other traffic violations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Drivers who try to cut through traffic by riding on the shoulder on local expressways are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-284280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-transportation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115333699930853662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}