Chicago Parking Corruption:
(something positive)
From:
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:kLyBK95Nr5IJ:parkingtoday.typepad.com/parking_blog/2008/12/chicago-parking.html+Chicago+parking+%2B+Corruption&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
Chicago Parking Politics…
The problem with talking about Chicago Politics is that corruption is so pervasive that’s its almost impossible not to think about it and connect graft and payoffs to virtually everything. We probably should tread carefully, however when we consider the latest “sale” of parking infrastructure.
My contacts on both sides of the deal say that the city did well. They covered their budget (although I could think of other ways to do it, it was probably politically impossible to cut it much more), have a few bucks in the bank, are past a “crisis” for at least the next five years, and have gotten the headache of trying to run a parking program in that most intense of all political environments.
What happened to the parking:
FROM: http://www.corruptpolitics.net/?tag=chicago-parking
... In the midst of our current financial crisis, Chicago, IL. attempting to ward off all the crisis it has has laid off a slew of their tradesmen or limited their services. This past few days snowfall and cold weather has run havoc on the people and their cars. The drivers of plows and salt trucks sent home at end of normal day and if something happens on the weekend it will have to wait till Monday.
Now for the parking! Chicago has subbed out a lease for the parking meters. A 75 year lease! It is expected that the price for a vehicle parked for an hour will go up from $.25 to up to $6.00.
Now I don’t know what the situation is with welfare at the moment but what will this increase do to all the folks working at minimum wage there at $7.75 an hour and driving downtown???