Parking Meter Rate Hike Sparks A Rebellion/ 2 Hours= $7 Dollars
Parking meter rate hike sparks a rebellion
March 22, 2009
BY CAROL MARIN Sun-Times Columnist
I spent last week staring at parking meters. And wondering if I was witnessing the beginnings of a boycott.
Boycott is probably too strong a term. Quiet rebellion may be more like it.
Whatever the word, on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. there were at least 10 open parking meters down one short block of Clark Street next to Lincoln Park.
At noon in Wicker Park, where Milwaukee Avenue is usually packed with parked cars, there were open meters waiting.
And at 2 p.m. around the Sheraton Hotel on Columbus Drive, a place where normally you can't crowbar your car into a space, there were at least three or four parking spaces. What's up with this?
What's up is that a month ago, when the City of Chicago privatized parking meters, rates were immediately jacked way up, and you now have to feed 28 quarters into the meter to park a car in the Loop for two hours. In exchange for a 75-year lease, the city got $1.2 billion to help plug its budget holes.
But by handing over municipal parking meters to a private company, the city has given its citizens a colossal case of sticker shock. The cost of most meters will quadruple by 2013.
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“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement” - Thomas Jefferson
“We have allowed our nation to be over taxed and over regulated and overrun by bureaucrats, the founders would be ashamed of us for what we're putting up with.” Ron Paul
Where is Cool Hand Luke?
So Where is Cool Hand Luke when you need him?
http://TommysWorldBBS.Kicks-ass.net:90
Keeping the Revolution Alive!
Scroll down a little, I
Scroll down a little, I posted link to Luke! Looks like someone put the entire movie on youtube.
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Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/user/BeaReady/
http://www.ohiofreedom.com/subd/
Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
"Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another,they both march in the same direction." - Paul Proctor
I posted before I read
haha! I posted before I read all the comments!
Wouldn't that be the cat's meow
http://TommysWorldBBS.Kicks-ass.net:90
Keeping the Revolution Alive!
I was born in Chicago
Have always lived in the Suburbs and only go into the City when summoned for jury duty. Just was talking to a Chicago cop who said, never go to the Chicago Feast on the 4th of July (gangs). He's glad he wasn't detailed there last year.
Incidentally on the news the Chicago Art Institute admission hiked to $18.
ADMISSION JUMPS 50% | Less than three years ago, entry was free.
March 11, 2009
The Chicago Park District Board approved a 50 percent increase in the admission price -- from $12 to $18 -- at its meeting today. Under the plan, students and seniors will see prices rise from $7 to $12, a 71 percent increase.
2016 Olympics Chicago ?
Just make it $25.... they
Just make it $25.... they can handle it... You go Chicagoan's
Tim
GOLD
http://www.rxforliberty.com/10/
Cedar Park, Texas
5 Aug 2007
Luke has the solution! lol
Luke has the solution! lol One of my all time favorites!
Cool Hand Luke (1967) Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV1yHrqXA88
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Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/user/BeaReady/
http://www.ohiofreedom.com/subd/
Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.
"Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another,they both march in the same direction." - Paul Proctor
Take a cutting torch and saws all
cut em all down and dump them in front of city hall
Wait A Minute.....
if you cut them all down.....then the city would have to replace them. And the more it happened....it would cost the city too much money to keep replacing the meters. So they would be forced to put the prices back to what they used to be....
Let's hope that doesn't happen!!! ;)
No, they would not have to replace them.
They do not need them in the first place. Why do we even accept the idea of parking meters?
Parking...just another excuse for a tax.
$7 for 2 HOURS????
What are you fightin' for?
Love me, I'm a liberal!
Freedom is only for those with the guts to defend it!
What are you fightin' for?
Caught in the middle?
Freedom is only for those with the guts to defend it!
I got a ticket in Hartford for $33 for being 2 minutes late
And then tried to pay online, their site was down, so then got a bigger ticket of $99. Still unpaid. I've written to the city to complain, no response. parking, christ.
Colchester, New London County, Connecticut
Better off on the bus or taking a cab! Gee whiz!
What are you fightin' for?
Love me, I'm a liberal!
Freedom is only for those with the guts to defend it!
What are you fightin' for?
Caught in the middle?
Freedom is only for those with the guts to defend it!
testing what the market will bear.
why are there meters at all?
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if you build it he will come..........Ron Paul 2012.
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if you build it he will come..........Ron Paul 2012.
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just another tool
to get people mad and protest so they can get closer to the implementation of the martial law.
No Redkhmer
Many states and local municipalities are broke because they got wiped out by the stock market. They now are going to make their citizens pay for their mistakes.
Seven Dollars to park for two hours??? Unreal.....
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