Parking Question
The snow-induced “break’’ from paying parking meters continues.
Officials Saturday said downtown parkers can leave their cars on the street without fear of getting a ticket until 9 a.m. Monday. In the neighborhoods, parkers have until 9 a.m. Tuesday before they have to begin to again feed the payboxes.
On Friday, the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications announced the suspension of ticketing for parking meter violations, but said motorists should still pay if the parking spot was clear and the payboxes accessible after snow piled up from this past week’s blizzard.
As an e-mailer reminded us, whenever the city closes a metered street for a pre-planned festival or parade or whatever for over a certain number of hours, the city is contractually obligated to pay the meter company for any supposed revenue the meters would have generated.
Does a snow event fall into that category of having to pay those connected companies for un-generated revenue? Because that would be a typical Daley move.
Does a snow event fall into that category of having to pay those connected companies for un-generated revenue? Because that would be a typical Daley move.
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posted by SCC at 7:05 AM
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Is the city going to bill the parking company for the cost of removing the snow from their parking spaces?
Does a snow event fall into that category of having to pay those connected companies for un-generated revenue? Because that would be a typical Daley move.
fuck you, pay me.
Chalkie
I think a lot of people will be penty mad when they start hanging tickets on cars. For one, the side streets are not clear. There is no place to park the cars. Even on many streets with pay boxes, cars are snowed in. They should suspend this for at least a week to give folks a chance to get their cars out.This is just typical of how the politicians in many cities have corrupted law enforcement and use it to raise revenue.
O.T. Fox news Sunday, Chico at least said that he will work with public employees and unions on cost cutting issues. He said that unlike Rahm, he would never tell men and women who run into burning buildings, face armed gunman and those who collectively came to the rescue of city residents during the storm that he would gut their pensions.
Second segment consisted of three panel members all concluding that pensions and benefits for all public employees must be cut. Get ready for a battle.
Finally, think of all the recent gold stars (directors, etc) and merit promotions being handed out. Hypothetically, if they cut pensions by percentage, these people will likely end up collecting 50% of 150,000 plus. The average police officer will be lucky to get 50% of 80,000. Gold braids will be fine either way, the average patrolman will get screwed. If they allow Daley and the band of thieving Alderman to leave with full pensions and cut ours, I hope they are prepared for the aftermath.
I heard that Daley's army of snow removal volunteers were clearing CTA bus stops AND the meter pay boxes... true?
Sure nough,um hmm,yeah amen umm hmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OEMC is a joke! They wouldn't be hired by anyone other than Chicago. Homeland Security has people who go to school to handle disasters and become Master Exercise Practitioners (MEP). In Chicago, you go see the alderman or store front reverands to get put in charge of disasters.
The announcement said something like "even though there's no enforcement, pay the meters anyway". Sounds like an attempt at CYA for that situation.
I heard central business district you must pay monday and the rest of the city tuesday morning via WBBM radio.
It's an Act of God. But with shortshanks; he speaks for God so you can surmise the idiot put thst clause in the LAZ contract and skims the vig.
Over the past few years, I have been spending a lot of time in Milwaukee-less than a mile from the downtown area.My time there has taught me that Chicago does not have a clue about how to deal with snow.It's not that they have more snow there since there has been less there now than in Chicago for this winter.
Here are a couple of clues from someone who fell twice in a 8 block walk at 2 different curbs:
-They ticket those who do not clean their walk and a path does not count;
-The city keeps sewers cleared so water does not turn into ice at intersections;and
-You have to move your car to the alternate side of the street or suffer a ticket and/or tow.
The 1st Ward AlderMoran has created a mess blowing snow in some alleys.There are many buildings that will not see their trash cans for months and many others that no longer have rear access with 12 feet of snow piled upon gates...fxxx
just a question daley wanted city employees to "volunteer" to shovel! HMM how many of daleys,burkes,the idiotic treasurers overpaid details volunteered? After all they are overpaid valets so they should know how to do grunt work? Did they shovel daleys-burkes-goofy neely's snow? Just wondering!
Watch Out!!! Juana Mendez is coming!!!
also..... As I may recall high speed trains are being looked at in China. Mayo wants to contract to them for purchase and install. I do think that I recall that we in the United States have high seed trains that are built here. Why China?
SCC.....
As a proud snow plow driver Im happy to report I took out a couple pay boxes along the streets downtown.
Those little tin boxes are easy to pop off with the plow.
Since the Blizzard wasn't planned by the City....
CPM and Morgan Stanley can fuck them selves.
For all those douche bags that keep saying we should be happy to have jobs, go f yourself. The city throws money away faster than they take it in.
What about the 2 inch Parking Ban that the city has yet to Recind?
Great question will more of our tax money be wasted to payoff more laz parking executives ? Who will get the "kick back"?
It better I own stock in the company which purchased the meter contact. I want my $$$$$$$$.
They better fucking not try to cut my pension.
There will be hell to pay if they do.
Anonymous said...
OEMC is a joke! ...In Chicago, you go see the alderman or store front reverands to get put in charge of disasters.
2/06/2011 09:23:00 AM
The OEMC is not there to create disaster;tThe OEMC is not there to preserve disaster
---The OEMC is not there to create disaster;tThe OEMC is not there to preserve disaster
funniest shit ever
"On Friday, the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications announced the suspension of ticketing for parking meter violations..."
Uh...is that an emergency?
Why is the 911 side dealing with this?
I guess we need another layer of bureaucracy -- an umbrella "Office of Non-Emergency Management and Communications" with its own half-billion dollar 311 dispatch center, huh?
It would be run just as incompetently as the present operation; when you go to the city web site to report a large, lucrative business that simply refuses to clean the whole block of sidewalk it's responsible for, you get an e-mail response that tells you to phone 311 and clog up the switchboard giving the details all over again if you want a progress report.
Why bother with the web site in the first place? You get no tracking number, although the e-mail does come with a suspicious attachment of some kind that does nothing visible when you open the message.
Be sure to run Spybot or something after dealing with the city online...
As far as all of the wonderful "registrations" and "permits" the site offers, it's interesting how you can't find anything under "firearm." All of a sudden you're dealing with the Great Sphinx -- not a movement, not a sound. I'm sure that the Republican mayoral candidate has something to say about this...
Anyway, I did hear that announcement on WBBM radio, made by "OEMC Executive Director Jose Santiago." Since Raymond E. Orozco is the "Director," at over $189,000/year, does "Executive" simply mean "Junior?"
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Ron Huberman was also OEMC "Executive Director" for a while. How many of these positions can there be?
Too many agencies, too many little empires, too many logos and custom-printed jackets and hats and vests and self-important a___holes wearing their work IDs around their neck 24/7 like you're supposed to let them get ahead of you in line at the grocery store.
It's too weird.
"The OEMC is not there to create disaster; the OEMC is there to preserve disaster."
--2/07/2011 06:34:00 AM
Like father, like son...the Mayor's response to a question even overseas newspapers were asking, "Where was the Mayor during the storm?"
"It's not the Daley Show."
Not when something bad happens, huh?
The rat that runs under something the fastest is the rat that lives another day...
In Chicago, you go see the alderman or store front reverands to get put in charge of disasters.
2/06/2011 09:23:00 AM
do you recognize the irony in this statement?
As a proud snow plow driver Im happy to report I took out a couple pay boxes along the streets downtown.
Those little tin boxes are easy to pop off with the plow.
2/06/2011 12:53:00 PM
crazy glue is a lot easier.
You can call people any names that you want. The reality of things are that the pension funds cannot survive unless benefits are adjusted, contributions raised and the retirement age raised. Thgis will effect the city workers much more, and should, then the police and fire. There is no way a city streets and san worker should be able to retire before 60 with a pension. No way a clerk in come city office should retire before 60 with a pension. No way. you might even say 65 for these folks. The cops and firemen should go back to what it was in 1980, 57 years of age. Every pension fund stands alone and every pension fund is controled by state law. Poor management and investment and funding put us here.If you think any of the mayor hopefuls are going to save you, you arfe dreamimg. Our fund has been selling assets for 20 years and very few people have raised teh alarm.This could have been avoided.
Multiple calls of people getting their cars damaged for parking in "someone's spot"......
Tires slashed, windows busted, doors keyed, etc......
In a city run by savages, does this type of savagery surprise anyone?
Who do the citizens of this city have to look up to as role models?
A bunch of cut-throat, back stabbing, crooked politicians. We get what we vote for.
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