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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongratulations, Chicago: Your City Now Has The Most Expensive Parking Meters In The U.S. ($6.50hr)
In a move that will earn it the dubious honor of being home to North Americas most expensive parking meters, Chicagos downtown meters will start charging parkers $6.50 an hour starting on New Years Day, up from $5.75. Its the highest rate for a downtown area and the fifth year the citys parking meter rates have gone up. Umm, so, congratulations?
By the end of February Chicago Parking Meters LLC will have all machines set to new rates by the end of February, says CBS Chicago. Since that company took control of the citys meters in 2008, rates have kept rising. It secured the lucrative contract under a 75-year lease championed by former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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http://consumerist.com/2012/12/27/congratulations-chicago-your-city-now-has-the-most-expensive-parking-meters-in-the-u-s/
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)JReed
(149 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)I won't go by car into Chicago unless I'm staying a while. If I can make my destination by train and on foot, cool. Otherwise I'll skip it.
pa28
(6,145 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,667 posts)And Daley got himself a nice cushy consulting gig - with the law firm that negotiated and closed the deal.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)I could also suggest gunfire, but there aren't any in Chicago.
loyalkydem
(1,678 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Way to go, Daley.