As a driving Chicagoan for nearly 20 years, he has received many, many,
many parking tickets. The bright orange of the tickets has been seared into is retinas and discolored his skin.
The Parking Ticket Geek has paid the city hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in fines. An embarrassing amount.
Eventually, the Parking Ticket Geek got angry at all the parking tickets
he was receiving. Because the majority he received, were issued improperly.
So he started fighting back…and winning.
Over the years, despite basically failing at everything else in life, the
Parking Ticket Geek became quite good at beating Chicago parking tickets.
Now, the Parking Ticket Geek wants to share his vast knowledge and teach other Chicago drivers how to contest their parking tickets, rip the cash out of the city's dirty, greedy hands and put that money back in your
wallet.
His website, The Expired Meter let's Chicagoans learn from the experience of his many, many stupid mistakes, educates readers on how to fight parking tickets, but also keep them up to date on parking related news, changing parking regulations, red light ticket violations and more.
The City of Chicago has released a multi-page press release claiming that "Chicago Parking Meters, LLC has substantially improved operational performance of meters."
CPM is going to fast track the installation of 3,000 Pay & Display units by years end, eliminating nearly 30,000 of the city's current 36,000 single head...
Despite the fact that, according to Chicago municipal code, you cannot be ticketed for parking at a broken meter, in many cases, motorists are still receiving tickets for this.
Now, most parking enforcement agents and police know this rule...
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Posted April 22, 2009
| 06:27 PM (EST)
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"Uh-oh", I muttered to myself as the three CPD squad cars approached.
As the cars screeched to a halt just in front of me, their blue lights flashing, I was rethinking my bravado of just minutes before and started trying to remember the phone number for any one of my...
As teams of LAZ Parking's employees slowly, but quite surely, canvas the city changing the parking meters to their new, much higher rates, another movement seems to be blossoming in reaction to these changes.
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It seems Chicago's Department of Revenue (DOR) has had so much success utilizing photographic evidence when ticketing parking violators, it has decided to utilize photography for for even more violations.
According to DOR management, the program was expanded the second...
So I bought a new car on Wednesday, even though the car is registered at my Chicago address, for the time being the dealer put an Elmwood Park vehicle sticker on since I used to have a car registered there.
As of February 11, when the parking meter lease deal finally closed, all of Chicago's parking meters are now officially under the control of Chicago Parking Meter LLC for the next 75 years.
What does that mean for people driving and parking on the streets of Chicago?
Drivers who have waited to the last minute to take advantage of Chicago's Parking Ticket Amnesty program are facing very long lines. Lines that are often extending outside Department of Revenue Payment Centers.
The City of Chicago announced late Wednesday, that the $1.16 billion deal has officially closed and meters will start being changed to the new rates and new days and hours of operation on Friday.
Recent changes and cutbacks to Chicago's Department of Administrative Hearings, are having a profound effect on drivers' ability to contest parking tickets and red light camera violations.
City budget cutbacks have struck every department in Chicago, including the Department of Administrative Hearings, which put some draconian measures into effect as...
With Chicago's parking meter system changing hands at the stroke of midnight tonight, I had some thoughts I wanted to share regarding the parking meter lease plan: Overwhelmingly bad.
After spending not quite two weeks digesting the details of the city of Chicago's 75-year...
How do citizens go about having this parking restriction removed? There is no reason for the city to make money off of this ridiculous parking regulation. There is no reason cars can not park Dec. 1 thru April 31 if...
Posted May 19, 2009 | 07:26 PM (EST)