Frozen Parking Meters Have Residents Fuming, City Says To Be Expected

chicagotribune.com:

Certainly in the minds of some frustrated motorists, frozen meters fed more resentment over the city's newly privatized meters Thursday. But city and parking company officials objected.

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Comments

[ejhickey]

02:28 PM on 12/11/2009

It was interestin­g to learn that Abu Dhabi gets a portion the parking meter revenue besides Morgan stanley Bank. I think the percentage is 28.5% of the parking box /meter revenue goes to AD , which is an investor in LAZ Parking. Nice and warm their - bet their meters don't freeze, if they even pay fo parking.

[tones]

01:02 PM on 12/11/2009

My question is what is that lady doing driving her car to the gold coast form Lincoln park? All you have to do is take the Clark or Lincoln bus and it would of got you to were you wanted just fine and cheaper. Either way this was the first big freeze and its not even much of a freeze. Wonder how these things will work when we hit our month long stride of teens and below in jan, feb.......

[zombywulf]

12:06 PM on 12/11/2009

They wabt them to be broken, It's called revenue enhancemen­t, the company gets a portion of the ticket revenue and Daleys vacation fund gets the rest.

[knightoftheroundtable]

09:05 PM on 12/13/2009

Hope fully it spells the end of the Daly regime next election.