There will always be miscreants that scoff at the law. The larger picture is being missed here: the city is charging $3 an hour for parking! for someone working an 8 hour day, that’s $24 bucks for the priviledge of providing the City of Chitcago with city and state wage taxes, or $120 a week. In the same way that ordinary folks in Canada were turned into “smugglers” for buying cigs in the US because the taxes were so high per pack, taxpayers (read “ordinary folks”) are responding in kind.
And like any enterprising citizen that have regressive taxes forced on them by government,many turn a buck by renting these placards. Now, like I said, I don’t condone the actions of a bunch of jerks out there parking closer at the mall or grocer that shouldn’t be, and causing problems and pain for those that deserve to park there, but it seems there are a lot of people that are simply avoiding paying the exhorbitant parking fees dowtown to go to work, and is not an issue of inconvenience for a handicapped person deprived of a closer parking space or ramp.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t work downtown, and don’t live in Chitcago
**There will always be miscreants that scoff at the law. The larger picture is being missed here: the city is charging $3 an hour for parking!**
That sounds steep to me too but I haven't had to use parking meters in cities, that much, since the meters would take pennies and nickles.
I live in NotChicago, Illinois.
I haven't read all the replies yet and maybe somebody already weighed in on parking rates in N.Y.C., I've heard that they are outlandish.