Ahh, the joys of privatization: Parking in Chicago

[marmar]

By John Byrne Tribune reporter
5:05 p.m. CST, December 26, 2012


In an annual ritual that has become as predictable if not as joyous as a New Year’s Eve countdown to midnight, Chicago drivers again will have to dig a little deeper to pay to park at meters in 2013.

Loop rates will go up 75 cents to $6.50 an hour as part of scheduled fee increases included in Mayor Richard Daley’s much-criticized 2008 lease of the city’s meters to Chicago Parking Meters LLC.

Paid street parking in neighborhoods near the Loop will rise 25 cents and reach $4 an hour. Metered spaces in the rest of Chicago also will increase by a quarter per hour, to $2, according to the company.

Come the new year, workers will begin adjusting the now-familiar pay boxes to reflect the new rates in the Loop, from there working outward into the neighborhoods, the company said in a news release Wednesday. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-parking-meter-rates-to-rise-again-in-2013-20121226,0,3777027.story

[PETRUS]

1. Missing link

Happy holidays, marmar!

[marmar]

2. Added.....and Seasons Greetings, Petrus !!!

[Octafish]

3. Why does Abu Dhabi own all of Chicago's parking meters?

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2010/10/why-does-abu-dhabi-own-all-of-chicago-s-parking-meters/18627/

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Time for some serious monkey wrenching

The central boxes make it even easier