Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Life in "Progress" City

Aaaahhh, life in the city, can you hear the buzz?

Oh, that's people bashing the parking meters.

Near Broadway and Addison, meter after meter are broken.

"I called the company and I said I don't want a ticket," one woman said.

LAZ is a Chicago company which collects the money for the New York owner which paid the city $1.2 billion to lease the city's 36,000 meters for 75 years. They've pasted new stickers on them, doubled the rates to as much as a quarter for five minutes in the Loop. That's $3 an hour to $2 an hour in many other neighborhoods. People are angry.

That's funny, out here in Redville, I've never seen a parking meter.

What's so damn "progressive" about parking tickets?

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's also interesting that Chicago sold 75 years of future income for $1.2 billion. How much you want to bet that money will be gone in 2 years. Another case of the government mindset of "Gimme a whole bunch of money right now so I can spend it ASAP. F**k the long term."