Posted on 12/01/2014 7:59:57 AM PST by WhiskeyX
CHICAGO (AP/ FOX 32 News) - Motorists in Chicago are warned that the city's annual winter overnight parking ban is starting.
The city says the ban begins at 3 a.m. on Monday. City officials say this year, 239 cars were towed on the first day of the ban. Last year, the same number of vehicles were towed on the first day of the ban.
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Discimintion against poor people is OK if it the bloated government that is being fed. .
Steve Goodman:
And there’s more cars than places to put ‘em, he says
But I’ve got room for them all
So ‘round ‘em up boys, ‘cause I want some more toys
In the lot by the grocery store
To me, way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, there’s nothin’ so hairy
And we always collect our fee
So it’s way, hey, tow ‘em away
We plunder the streets of your town
Be it Edsel or Chevy, there’s no car too heavy
And no one can make us shut down
We break into cars when we gotta
With hammer and pickaxe and saw
And they said this garage had no license
But little care I for the law
Our drivers are friendly and courteous
Their good manners you always will get
‘Cause they all are recent graduates
Of the charm school in Joliet
To me, way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, there’s nothin’ so hairy
And we always collect our fee
So it’s way, hey, tow ‘em away
We plunder the streets of your town
Be it Edsel or Chevy, there’s no car too heavy
And no one can make us shut down
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Pff, I would think a city of 5 million would two 239 cars daily as a normal course of business. Portland Maine, pop 65,000 tows 100 cars every year at the first parking ban. Portland provides ample notice and still this many people don’t get their car off the street.
What are people without driveways supposed to do?
Go park in front of Rahmbo’s house?
Annual winter overnight parking ban? How about only when it’s snowing so the plows can operate?
Sounds like a “follow the money” scheme. Tow truck drivers get paid. The lot the cars are towed to get paid. The drivers that can’t pay the impound fees lose their cars and the city gets the proceeds.
“...City officials say this year, 239 cars were towed on the first day of the ban. Last year, the same number of vehicles were towed on the first day of the ban.”
It would seem from this article that 239 cars to be towed is the annual quota set by the city every year for the first day of the ban which I would assume is embedded in their budget estimates. If they fell short of the number of cars actually in the street to be towed, I would assume that cars hanging over the curb from driveways (fractions of inches to feet) would be towed to reach the quota.
I used to live in Chicago, and am not familiar with this ban. Maybe was instituted after I moved away, or perhaps just on certain major roads? I lived in a neighborhood of apartments where nobody had off street parking or a driveway to park their car. Everybody parallel parked on the street.
“What are people without driveways supposed to do?”
Park on the side streets.
Yeah it is only on some of the main streets.
We lived there in the 70’s in the New Town area north of Lincoln Park. Yes. every other day a different side of the street was “towable”. A great inconvenience and a great way for the parasitic government to get money.
They better check the trunks for drugs, guns and bodies...
Milwaukee had the sense to ease their rules.
Vehicles parked in the area are allowed to park on both sides of the street — up to five days without being moved — for most of the year. The area encompasses much of the Yankee Hill, Brady Street and Murray Hill neighborhoods west of N. Prospect Ave. and N. Downer Ave., from E. Wells St. northeast to E. Locust St.
This winter, those vehicle owners do not have to abide by the traditional alternate side of the street rule.
They may continue parking overnight on both sides of the street up to five days unless — here comes the fine print — public works officials announce a snowplow operation overnight.
Then they must immediately move vehicles to the correct side of the street to conform with the alternate side routine: odd side of the street on an odd-numbered day before midnight or even side of the street on an even-numbered day before midnight.
Once the public works department notifies media that a plow operation is completed, vehicles are allowed on both sides of the streets overnight until the next operation is called.
Exactly. Sounds like they are encouraging DUI as the only reason I’d leave my car in the city overnight would be because I needed to call a cab.
ah, so they can drifted and blocked in by snow plow drifts until spring
Um, what if the nearest side street is a block or 2 - or more - away?
As a wise man once said: “That’s life in the big city”
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