Parking "Wars" Up North
Brilliant - ticket the people you know are probably going to pay:
- For years we've heard complaints about skyrocketing prices at Chicago parking meters, especially downtown.
Now, a new parking battle is taking shape in the neighborhoods.
Residents and businesses in Chicago's Northwest side Edison Park say they're under siege by enforcement workers writing parking tickets day and night.
They're trying to fight back, but because the city privatized the meters, there's not much they can do about it.
We'll bet money that the surrounding neighborhood has all gone to Permit Parking in an effort to maintain their quiet lifestyle without all the revelers taking up street space? And the aldrecreature encouraged or facilitated it? So all the trendy people have to pay the higher parking fees or get expensive tickets? It's unfortunate that businesses will end up losing customers or moving out of the city due to these increased costs, but it was a completely predictable outcome that Shortshanks stuffed down everyone's throats.
But it will all be better in 70 years or so.
But it will all be better in 70 years or so.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
111 Comments:
Flee with the family! Don't look back. Tiny dancer will not be a citizen of Chicago in several years nor should you.
Hasn't all gone to permit. 80% of the "revelers" are from the neighborhood. This is nothing more than the city knowing where the money is and who will pay. They hit the metered spots, yes. Every other pimpy ticket too. Half the time the convicts working parking enforcement don't know what's legal and what's not so they'll write the ticket if there is the slightest doubt. God forbid the demon infested hell holes of the south and west side get such attention. Why not flood those shitholes while the precious children are walking to/from school? Love ya SCC, but save the snide comments about god's country up here. More conservatives up here than anywhere else in the city. Apathetic voters like the rest of NE illinois, but conservative nonetheless.
i work in the 5th district. Been there for years. Not one single time have i seen a dept of revenue person writing tickets anywhere in the entire district.
Keep voting for the Democrats in the 41st ward. O'Connor, Gonzalez, Mullins, and on and on.
It's a known fact that "Parking Enforcement Aides" target the neighborhoods that pay the taxes. Yes you may see one in the depressed area but only on the main streets. Funny how they don't fear walking the side streets of civilized Garfield Ridge and slamming the people who have insurance, lic. city stickers. They love the street cleaning money makers or writing cars from the suburbs for no city stickers. Why aren't they walking the side streets of Englewood or east end of 008. Easy, those bad guys over there will kick their asses and still not pay their tickets. They love writing unmarked cars stopped for a 20 minute lunch. When you ask them, "didn't you know that's a police car?" they respond, "Yeah but how can we be sure, we can't give breaks." I asked her, "Did you ever get pulled over by a policeman and ask for a break cuz your a meter maid?" The answer is always the same, "Yeah, I always get a play." It's a shame the taxpayers tolerate the blatant race game where these ticket writers are encouraged to write.
Save the slam on have your shit straight and you won't get a ticket. That's not my point here. My point is that after all the freebies paid for out of my check every two weeks for lazy muthas that don't work, my neighborhood is targeted for fines because it's safer and these residents pay their fines.
Cover the vin# take the plates off and go enjoy a nice long lunch at Tonys.
I never see them in the ghetto writing anyone
If you don't have parking I don't patronize your business.
When it comes to spending my money, it's all about my convenience.
I'm sure I am not alone in this thinking.
If you don't have a lot, you better have plenty of foot traffic.
Park legal and pay.
Anonymous said...
Cover the vin# take the plates off and go enjoy a nice long lunch at Tonys.
1/24/2014 01:10:00 AM
And then go pick up your car at the pound because no plates and vin concealed = Tow for investigation.
I hate Chicago. I can't wait until my hands are unchained and I can leave. I shop and go out in the suburbs, in a different county.
If you don't have parking I don't patronize your business.
When it comes to spending my money, it's all about my convenience.
I'm sure I am not alone in this thinking.
If you don't have a lot, you better have plenty of foot traffic.
Please move to the suburbs....I'm sure a night on the town for you involves either an Olive Garden or Red Lobster.
I have stopped patronizing the Northwest Highway businesses due to the meter parking. There are other Italian delis and restaurants that have free parking. Not one more dime to the thieves. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
"Park Legal and Pay"; You MORON! How much should I pay? My property tax, wheel tax, license plate tax, and now you tax me to park on the streets I pay for and you send the qmoney to Dubai; wake up you MORON.
1/24/2014 12:55:00 AM
"They love writing unmarked cars stopped for a 20 minute lunch."
unmarked car and 20 min lunch. That's hilarious.
Never happy! They finally have a mascot, now they want parking? Geez...
Stop parking in the city. If you do then pay the meters.
These northwest side alderthieves are useless.
I spend my hard earned dollars in the burbs where ample free parking is available.
So ummm, what happens if the parking machine happens to ummm, you know, break down? What if it get's stolen?
Free parking?
Seriously though, unless these parking enforcement teams are out in Englewood and other South and West side neighborhoods 'enforcing' things just as vigorously as they are in Edison Park, then it's nothing but discrimination.
Edison Park residents out to start trotting out that 'race' card - they're doing this because we're white! Let's see how that plays out...
Sit tight, as we speak a prominent attorney is putting the infrastructure together for a class action on improperly written tickets by the city and meter company. This one is gonna bite both in the ass.
There are a lot of times I'm reading a comment and then feel bad for the person who has to review a report by this person.
the baron meister rahmpoleon says you will all pay or off with your head--- pitiful peasants, bow down to the king and his court of 50 jesters....
I'm sure you're not going to like this, but the parking enforcement mutts are nothing more than a response to us coppers not doing our jobs. We used to write parkers. Remember those days? In 16 there were just so many complaints that that such and such copper writes family members cars with medallions on it, that they stopped. I know it's a money maker. But the fact is we stopped doing it and they found a way to get it done. Do I hate them? Yes, just like I do the department of revenue and tax bill when it comes. Guess what? That happens to be where your, mine, and your partner's raise comes out of. Park legal. keep your shit straight, and ticket the enforcement people when ever you can if it makes you feel better.
I've always wondered about this topic. How many more tickets are written in neighborhoods where people are more likely to pay compared to other low income neighborhoods. Isn't this a form of discrimination? Shouldn't the media trolling this website report on this? FOIA? Oh wait...
"Park legal and pay..." Unfortunately most of the ticket writers are robots and do not pay attention to local parking signs that are posted and NOT posted. I've been a victim of several tickets for parking in a zoned neighborhood. The problem is my neighborhood isn't zoned but it is two blocks away. My family visiting from out of state, again parking in a no zone neighborhood and for only one night, were welcomed to this city by a ticket writer for not having a IL front plate (out of state plates). Then there was one time where every car on the street got a ticket for not moving during car for street cleaning. Problem is there were not posted signs for street cleaning. So park legal and pay is the motto in my neighborhood.
f you don't have parking I don't patronize your business.
When it comes to spending my money, it's all about my convenience.
I'm sure I am not alone in this thinking.
If you don't have a lot, you better have plenty of foot traffic.
When I have to make a run to Tony's for my wife I park on Avondale and walk there to avoid paying for street parking.
They have also been hitting Edison Park school right before dismissal. Nailing all the parents who are picking up their kids in the below zero weather, thanks Rhamie the commie. But remember this elite, conservative enclave for firemen, coppers, and city workers who want to keep their neighborhood nice and clean and crime free overwhelmingly voted for Obama the socialist, cop hating, job destroying machine hack, so suck it......
You ought to see them in Wrigleyville. The revenue writers are working midnights in crews of 4-5 writing everything around the ballpark, Southport, Lincoln, Halsted, Broadway - wherever the bars and restaurants are. But you never see them in the Uptown part of the District.
Only white neighborhoods are getting ticketed 24/7 for parking. Just another reason why people are leaving chiraq.
Here's an idea. Don't park illegally and you won't get a ticket.
Perhaps the city can start a parking spot rental program. People bid for the spot in front of their home.
Does anyone on this job realize that each and everyone could literally blanket the south and west sides with parking tickets? In the first three weeks, the department would be lovin you. In the next three weeks, the citizens would try to burn down City Hall with Rahm in it and the department would stop providing ticket books.
But, anonymous complaining is so much easier. And more fun, too!
Anonymous said...
i work in the 5th district. Been there for years. Not one single time have i seen a dept of revenue person writing tickets anywhere in the entire district.
1/24/2014 12:32:00 AM
So what are you complaining about? If you want tickets written, then fucking write them.
Alderman O'Connor is outraged? HaHaHa. This Hibernian half-wit's campaign was given significant funding by Rahm Emmanual himself yet my softball neighbors couldn't figure that one out and voted her in office. I'm going to suggest to LAZ that they specifically target any vehicles displaying shamrocks, Notre Dames drunken fighting midgets, or other symbols of low intelligence. You won't mind, you asked for it.
Isn't this the same neighbor hood that parking enforcement went after a Catholic Churcha few years ago?
I believe these are the same people writing St. Juliana during Sunday mass.
I think its time for a attorney to file a class action law suit. I would love to see the breakdown of where the tickets are being written in the city. Where is the media with there great investigative reporting?
Why would you give a meter maid or a dept of revenue guy a break? All they do is give you tickets. My answer would be "You guys always say you can't give anyone a break, neither can I".
The parking aides are also walking in the Edison park neighborhood ticketing for minor infractions like parking on wrong side, tinted windows, no front plate ect. My wife saw two black males walking around my neighbors car with flashlights at six am on a 7 degree day. The city knows you'll pay so here they come. Don't give them any ammo.
In Garfield ridge I see a van full of these parking enforcement aids. They get dropped of at certain spots. They got my neighbor for being parked too far off the curb. Never have I seen any of them in the ghetto.
if you feel that there is a discrepancy in ticket writing, you have your own book of 20, get your last ass out and write some tickets or shut up
thats what happens when you live up north. Blame your alderman who spoke out against the mayor on several fronts. Yes, its retaliation for him opening his mouth.
I love that these pricks park illegally on fire hydrants and crosswalks to go write tickets on people who run into the deli for a sub without paying the box.
And for all the smart asses who say "park legally", GFY! It WAS legal to park on these streets until LAZ got a sweetheart deal and these scumbags they hire were given STARS and authority to write the hell out of a neighborhood that does NOT want them here!
It's an insult, pure as can be!
I just stay out here in the suburbs where it's free to park.
Vote O'Connor out. I never see revenue enforcers by her deli.
Another quasi-business hack seeking self-interest in government.
Why not write tickets up where people who can actually pay them live?
Thanks again Rich.
I know what you are going to say, "I don"t know nothing about that." "Was I Mayor?"
Meter Maids drive cars too.
There's revenue people ON FOOT up and beyond Edison Park. That, and the streets aren't plowed, but go into a non-cop/city worker area and streets are clean as a whistle!
Anonymous said...
Cover the vin# take the plates off and go enjoy a nice long lunch at Tonys.
1/24/2014 01:10:00 AM
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They can order a tow for a car like that. And how much you want to bet instead of waiting hours for a tow for anything else, they'd have a tow truck there in 5 min and you can wave buh-buh to your vehicle. Then you'd end up paying towing charge, towing storage, and a big fat ticket. And by the way, you can't tell a tow truck to drop a police tow if you show up while they're in the process. They've made the process undefeatable. (sp?)
Used to go to Tony's Deli for lunch 2 or 3 times a week, until a $5 sandwich cost me $85.00
too bad, great people and great food
but I had to fight indigestion when I would go to pay and see the picture of Daley behind the register
NOW, Its Park Ridge for lunch, free parking and hot moms to look at
Revenue was writing tickets around St. Juliana on a Sunday....what would the outcry be if they did that on the west side? It'd be deafening....and on the news.
Anonymous said...
i work in the 5th district. Been there for years. Not one single time have i seen a dept of revenue person writing tickets anywhere in the entire district.
1/24/2014 12:32:00 AM
Because they would be robbed at gunpoint or assaulted by hoodrats.
Its not about parking enforcement its about parking revenue. They hit the neighborhoods like Edison Pk and Mt Greenwood hard cause they know we will pay. The don't go in the hood especially on the side streets cause they know the chances of getting paid are much lower.
WA,WAW, WAW, I really feel sorry for all you priviledged people up in Edison Park, of coarse people that live on these sidestreets should be able to park on their own block. All these businesses, such as Elliots, Nona Pias, etc. all take up streetparking, they hav e these so called elite valet services that get tickets on the cars, then throw them away leaving the carowner to pay late fines. They need to rent space fom the businesses that close at night to park in their lots. Businesses up there knew what the story was when the greedy alderman up north years back granted them permission to open up.
Anonymous said...
Park legal and pay.
1/24/2014 02:42:00 AM
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Duh... The point is TAX PAYERS are being targeted because they will pay the fine for the ticket. Working VRI I can say I haven't seen any meter maids targeting the englewoodians... No money to be had there.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If you don't have parking I don't patronize your business.
When it comes to spending my money, it's all about my convenience.
I'm sure I am not alone in this thinking.
If you don't have a lot, you better have plenty of foot traffic.
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Please move to the suburbs....I'm sure a night on the town for you involves either an Olive Garden or Red Lobster.
1/24/2014 05:52:00 AM
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Not the original poster, but I agree with them. Doctor's office was on Lincoln Ave, with no parking. Shopped around and found a great doctor outside the city, huge free parking lot, and the bonus is lots of shopping and restaurants and cheaper gas for the car nearby.
I spend as little as possible in the city. Whether it's street parking or insane garage parking prices or bottled water or hotel taxes, they're finding ways to drive us all out, to places where those things are free, or at least cheaper, and the target areas are a lot SAFER.
Be sure to obey all traffic rules when responding to traffic enforcement calls for disturbance with a motorist...
They have also been hitting Edison Park school right before dismissal. Nailing all the parents who are picking up their kids in the below zero weather, thanks Rhamie the commie. But remember this elite, conservative enclave for firemen, coppers, and city workers who want to keep their neighborhood nice and clean and crime free overwhelmingly voted for Obama the socialist, cop hating, job destroying machine hack, so suck it......
1/24/2014 09:07:00 AM
U must be a ghetto rat tool..Edison PK is a middle class neighborhood that I m sure didn t vote for either Rahm or Fake Prez. You are mistaking this place with Hyde Park or Rogers Pk where the yippies live with all the other cop haters.
1/24/2014 01:10:00 AM
And I'll have your car towed before you get done at Tonys.
Look up 9-760-160A,
No Park or Stand on Roadway without Registration Plates.
2 tickets Plus the Tow and Impound.
Regards,
1254
1/24/2014 11:05:00 AM
Been a while since you pulled it out....they have 35 in them now.
Enjoy your CLOUT and eat it you vote one party rule like North Korea
This whole problem could be cleared up quick by a couple of guys in Bozo masks with baseball bats.
Hey northsiders vote the bitch out! She should been voted out when she voted for the parking meter deal, every alderscum that voted for that deal should of been voted out. The people writing tickets up there are not Department of Revenue, they are a PRIVATE company that 9.5 hired with the blessing of the alderscum to write tickets for the city. She lied to you again saying there is nothing she can do, BULLSHIT!!!! Pass a city ordinance that only CPD and Department of Revnue can issue parking citations in the city of Chicago. When I came on the job only the police could write parking tickets and now private companies are writing them. Raise hell and call her out on her bullshit and VOTE THE BITCH OUT!!!!
You must not write many. There are 30 in a book.
Typical do nothing asshat.
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if you feel that there is a discrepancy in ticket writing, you have your own book of 20, get your last ass out and write some tickets or shut up
Anonymous Anonymous said...
There's revenue people ON FOOT up and beyond Edison Park. That, and the streets aren't plowed, but go into a non-cop/city worker area and streets are clean as a whistle!
1/24/2014 12:47:00 PM
Haven't driven in many non-cop neighborhoods recently, have you? I haven't seen a plowed sidestreet in Avondale, Logan Square or Belmont Cragin.
Anonymous said...
if you feel that there is a discrepancy in ticket writing, you have your own book of 20, get your last ass out and write some tickets or shut up
1/24/2014 11:05:00 AM
You're missing the point dipshit. It's not about getting even with anyone by writing more tickets, it's about the city making a money grab from areas of the city most likely to pay instead of targeting all areas with violations; i.e. the whole city. You probably live in an area that tickets aren't being issued or more likely still live in your mom's basement so it doesn't affect you.
I park my smart car legally.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I have to agree with 8:14:00 AM poster.
We did this to ourselves in a way.
Excluding a few districts like 019 and 018 and 001 and 020 and 024 and parts of 014....we stopped doing tickets and the City had to find other people to do the job.
I remember when the Meter Maids were still called Meter Maids and Only Checked Meters. I remember the years when on July 16th I could nail down 100 City Sticker Tickets in a shift. We didn't worry about the 12 inches from the curb or Wrong way 2 or 1 way street tickets because if we were not busy on a Call, we had other things we could write on the Banger Cars or fake Nebraska In Transit tagged vehicles.
The Pimpy ticket were beneath us OTJ because we have Discretion.
What we have forgotten is a simple fact...
Revenue/Finance ticket writers Do not do anything Other than write tickets. They don't stop during street cleaning in 020 because their dash camera Pinged on a Plate and you now have to do whatever you need to do for what ever reason it pinged for. They don't stop checking for city sticker violations in the 10 S Kedzie City Lot because there is a car crash at the Kedzie/Madison intersection due to some banger being stupid in front of a bus.
They don't go down for a CTA check or a 'suspicious noise' 19P BS call at 3am.
I've watched (in my time in 018) Cops rush down 1 way streets with Lights Blazing to get to a street cleaning ticket before the on foot Revenue ticket writer could get there first. I've seen them do the same in 024 and 020 and 023 and 019 as well. They will also write the Stop Sign/Traffic Signal ticket all over the projects around Hudson and Oak St.
I even know about the Jagoff Beat cop in 024 that airmailed a Street Cleaning ticket for a Revenue Enforcement vehicle that was Out writing street cleaning because the Cop got Pissed they got there First.
We brought this type of enforcement on ourselves because We decided to stop writing parkers.
70 years. I'll only be 123!! :)
They hit the neighborhoods like Edison Pk and Mt Greenwood hard cause they know we will pay.
..And You Keep Voting the same way every time
I always leave this City every chance I get to buy gas, food, bottled water, Tv's etc.!
This city can implode, for all I care! The Politicians stole everything anyway!
All City Pensions are broke in 10 years! WATCH!
Off topic but important to note!
Ohio Court rules "Speed Cameras" are a scam and ordered a town to shut them down!
Judge also ordered the cameras confiscated and ordered the town to repay back the fines collected by stating the city acted in bad faith and ruled Unconstitutional!
http://townhall.com/watchdog/ohio/2014/01/24/ohio-red-light-cameras-n3877
A way to attack Chicago's Speed cameras and Red light cameras!
I can't "flee"...my damn house is still upside down and I'd have to come up with a lot of money just to walk away from it! This city is so f-ed up it's unbelievable. And because I work for the damn place I had to live here, pay these exorbitant taxes, pay private school tuition because my kids weren't safe in the public schools, and can't move now even though I could retire. Damn.
Anonymous said...
They have also been hitting Edison Park school right before dismissal. Nailing all the parents who are picking up their kids in the below zero weather, thanks Rhamie the commie. But remember this elite, conservative enclave for firemen, coppers, and city workers who want to keep their neighborhood nice and clean and crime free overwhelmingly voted for Obama the socialist, cop hating, job destroying machine hack, so suck it......
1/24/2014 09:07:00 AM
Why do you blame the mayor? Where is the alderwoman? She could stop the parking enforcement. She remains silent. Call her to register complaints about the parking issues. This is her ward.
Why don't we do a parking study see howmany tickets are written in the white nieghborhoods. after all isnt that traffic study still going on cause they never got the right results. they wont like the results of a parking study either.
Duh... The point is TAX PAYERS are being targeted because they will pay the fine for the ticket. Working VRI I can say I haven't seen any meter maids targeting the englewoodians... No money to be had there.
1/24/2014 02:24:00 PM
If you're working VRI in Englewood...earn your keep..
Run every damn plate to check Make to Model to plate #. You know as well as I do that in certain wards the rats flip plates to different vehicles. Or park in vacant lots with no plates and "for sale" signs all over them. Go after the illegals driving with No License or Insurance and get them off the street and impound the vehicles.
If you got a Box to work for that VRI money, WORK It.
It was a year or 2 ago when these geniuses from revenue wrote a whole block in Evergreen park. they had no idea the were out of the city limits.
This is what happens when you privatize.
Here's an idea. Don't park illegally and you won't get a ticket.
GFY. Aggressively ticket everywhere or nowhere, not just white areas.
OK, I can top 'em all…the complaints I mean…I stopped at a buddies condo on Lawrence Av. in Jeff. Park…payed an hour to park and displayed receipt in window properly…came back 20 min. later…yep! a ticket…for expired meter! you know, the ones they left with no guts in it as a convenience for cyclists the time on the ticket written was 2 mins. after I displayed my receipt…so I looked it up on their site…a photo is supposed to show the violation…mine showed the lft front fender, not even the plate!…I contested it and city responded with "insufficient proof of violation "and I was exonerated…needless to say, I looked around for several days after being let off, to see if I could find the ticket nazi that wrote it…no luck yet ,but their day will come…LAC will prevail.
"drunken fighting midgets"
You referring to Tommy the Thumb& Shortshanks?
Anyone remember the traffic cop at 6 corners ? I think there was a poster made of him with Pride integrity Guts on it. Got my first ticket from him the second day I had my license in 1972.Thats when the city was worth going into.
One of O'Connors aides was overheard saying that the Alderman brought these asshole ticket writers into 41 to write the tickets. She would then bitch publically about it, get them to leave and then take credit for fixing the mess. She is very worried about reelection knowing she will have many opponents and will be kept under the 50% threshold. Their is a female PO running with a Irish name, that will have key support from many of Dohertys best Precent Captains.
Why enforce parking/metering in Englewood/the west side/garfield ridge when they know that their workers will just get shot over there? They're safe & sound writing their tickets on the nwside or in mt. greenwood.
As a retired police officer, I moved out of the city 10 years ago. I still enjoy coming back for dinner and theater, but less and less. Parking costs are prohibitive , especially when you pay one fee for a movie or theater and then another for a restaurant. Then, you have to watch out for potholes. I hit one 3 years ago and it cost me $800
1/24/2014 06:28:00 PM
Wait...19th Ward denizen actually complaining?
Screw 19th Ward. I'm probably paler than have the Mt Greenwood posters here...but I'm sick to death of the racist "how dare you send those N on bikes out here to ticket Us for our screwups" attitudes you run into out there with the City Workers. O'Shea is a problem for that ward.
I'm temped to take my bike out there the 1st of the month and just target all trucks and vans because I can.
1/24/2014 12:55:00 AM
1/24/2014 12:55:00 AM
"They love writing unmarked cars stopped for a 20 minute lunch."
1/24/2014 07:21:00 AM
unmarked car and 20 min lunch. That's hilarious.
LOL, I was laughing when I wrote that original post, you got me!!
Of course the people who pay the taxes are squeezed. That's the nature of the game. Government and its close pals are about squeezing every dime they can out of productive people.
The cop on the beat has always been the social safety valve, but he's largely being replaced by "law enforcement" and corporate contractors. Neither of whom will act as a safety valve to protect the good people. Lots of laws got passed to go after the bad people with the understanding that cops wouldn't apply them to good people (although it often happened in lots of places). The laws that were once tools to go after criminals and neerdowells are now of course being turned on the productive people more than ever. Especially those that bring in the loot.
NOW THIS is discrimination!!! We need a class action lawsuit!,,
@ 1/25/2014 02:46:00 AM
Oh Nose....a Chicago politician talking out of both sides of her face? Whatever shall we do?
/sarcasm
And FYI SCC...
Ya'all made 'TheExpireMeter.Com" website
Anonymous said...
One of O'Connors aides was overheard saying that the Alderman brought these asshole ticket writers into 41 to write the tickets. She would then bitch publically about it, get them to leave and then take credit for fixing the mess. She is very worried about reelection knowing she will have many opponents and will be kept under the 50% threshold. Their is a female PO running with a Irish name, that will have key support from many of Dohertys best Precent Captains.
1/25/2014 02:46:00 AM
I don’t believe for one second that anything you wrote in your post ever happened, or ever will happen, or ever could happen. I think you’re the guy that everyone just stays away from because you make things up. An aid to the alderman is out whispering about a secret plan to ticket cars in her own ward … all so that she could look heroic to those who had to pay tickets?? That is a real bad idea, and makes absolutely no sense.
You also heard the alderman is worried about “many opponents” yet I have not heard of one person running against her, and with all of your inside sources you couldn’t find out the name of the Irish PO who is going to take her on, even though she is being supported by, “Doherty’s best precinct captains.”
Doherty’s best precinct captains are probably in their 60’s, retired, and could give a fuck.Do you think they're going to go out in this shit and ring door bells? Try laying off the hooch my friend, you have a very active imagination.
Go to Gumba Joes in Park Ridge, free parking and he has great food! Fuck Shitcago!
parking enforcement aides/LAZ employees do work the South Side. Have seen them in 006th district and Hyde Park.
Ald. O'Connor is a shill for the Rahmster. Case in point, O'Connor had a hush-hush meeting with him and few of his appointed CPS mopes. The meeting was about naming an assistant principal (Carolyn Rownd) from his pet school Jones HS be named the interim principal at Taft HS in Norwood Park.
Rownd took over for a principal (Mary Kay Cappitelli) who went on a LOA forever. Rownd is expected to work the rest of Cappitelli's 3-year contract and then be named Taft's new permanent principal.
Rahm took a liking to Taft after visiting the school and feels Taft would be a nice trump card for him if he puts his person in charge; already massive changes are in the works with many more on their way for Taft.
There are a lot of better, family, date night, cheap eats, fine dining or pub grub restaurants outside the city where there are no parking hassles.
I'd tell you my favorites but I don't want to overload them.
>>>Anonymous said...
They have also been hitting Edison Park school right before dismissal. Nailing all the parents who are picking up their kids in the below zero weather, thanks Rhamie the commie. But remember this elite, conservative enclave for firemen, coppers, and city workers who want to keep their neighborhood nice and clean and crime free overwhelmingly voted for Obama the socialist, cop hating, job destroying machine hack, so suck it......
1/24/2014 09:07:00 AM<<<
Are they City of Chicago employees or do they work for Chicago Parking Meters LLZ.
Would any one of them be obliged to show an City ID if demanded.
Post some photos of these creeps,
with their names and addresses.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Here's an idea. Don't park illegally and you won't get a ticket.
1/24/2014 09:17:00 AM
Sure you will. This is Shitcago. What planet are YOU from?
If you don't have parking I don't patronize your business.
When it comes to spending my money, it's all about my convenience.
I'm sure I am not alone in this thinking.
If you don't have a lot, you better have plenty of foot traffic.
Please move to the suburbs....I'm sure a night on the town for you involves either an Olive Garden or Red Lobster.
1/24/2014 05:52:00 AM
To the tool who says move to the suburbs.....you may want to try asking your mom if you can go out of the basement. There are better retaurants in the burbs without the stupid high costs of the city parking, taxes, roach infested , supposed top shelf places.
1/25/2014 10:18:00 PM
LAZ/CPM employees do not have the authorization to ticket for anything other than Meters, mate.
So it would most likely be Department of Finance OR Ser Co sub-contractors doing the ticketing for whatever Stupid Parking the parents are doing over there.
Half the shit you're whining about is shit you would drop parkers on in Englewood or Austin or Harrison or New City or Grand Crossings.
Just because you live on the NW side of town or the Deep SW side of Chicago with the rest of the City Workers doesn't mean you are exempt from enforcement of ANY type. Don't like tickets? Stop Fucking up.
Appologies SCC...whiners like this one piss me off.
If SCC wouldn't mind I'd like to weigh in on this one...
http://chicagometers.com/contact-us.aspx
Enforcement in the 41st Ward actually HAS been low over the past 3 years due to Ser Co contractors refusing to work up there due to a "Lack of ticketing potential."
One of the first things we noticed back around May of 2013 was that people that were getting street cleaning tickets were complaining...not about Lack of Signs...but that We didn't warn them that we were going to come up there to enforce for it.
At that point, we started sending in our best staff to hammer the most Scoffed Upon MCC violations.
But the first 2 weeks of December 2013 were Most Illuminating.
Finance Sent in 2 of its best...1 per week; 2 per day...
The Ticket writers came back with over 80 tickets a day EACH.
Meters, Exp Plates, Wrong Way on Street, Rear/Front plate tickets, city sticker violations, No Park/Stand tickets due to 9-76-160 violations, Residential Parking violations around the entertainment district as well as near the Metra and CTA stations.
When you have the potential for 400 tickets a week Per Shift for a single ward in Revenue Generation, you can bet the City and the Contractor is going to ramp up the frequency of visits by the enforcement staff.
At least until such time as the violations dry up...
Cover the vin# take the plates off and go enjoy a nice long lunch at Tonys.
1/24/2014 01:10:00 AM
And then go pick up your car at the pound because no plates and vin concealed = Tow for investigation
When was the last time you saw that happen, Never.
Article in the Sun Times today about all the tickets written in Edison Park, especially the business district with all the bars and restaurants Persons writing the meter violations work for the meter co. Although its true the city gets the money for the tickets, the meter co figures if they pound the illegal meter parking, people will start putting more money in the meter, money the meter co keeps. Already one restaurant takes $7.00 of your bill because of the expense of parking.
Whats going to hurt the city is as people quit going to those restaurants, the city will lose the tax revenue generated by those restaurants. Read the article, its pretty interesting and revealing.
While cityhall can mess - oppress - and screw with you all they want you still have two options which are totally yours:
your vote and your business. The former was wasted on whatever political hack the Democrats send your way, gotta keep the machine running despite the fact that it no longer serves your interests, only it's own. The latter because the people of the NW side are spoiled and lazy, have enough money to pay the extra costs and cannot get together to present a majority consensus of thought on any subject, sort of like arguing about what song the band should play while the Titanic was sinking. Here's an idea, go to your favorite business - present them with a letter saying you will be taking your patronage($$$)to the suburbs - actually boycott those businesses for a while and see how they will scream to the aldercreatures office. Yes, people will suffer but if we can ever show some solidarity and backbone then maybe the city will have to consider how much crap they can dump on our heads without any consequenses.
The poster who said there's no parking meters by O'Connor's Deli is correct, here's video proof:
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140123/edison-park/good-hood-with-ted-brunson-oconnors-market-deli?utm_content=walterbrzeski%40aol.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Good%20in%20the%20Hood%20with%20Ted%20Brunson%3A%20O%27Connor%27s%20Market%20and%20Deli&utm_campaign=Good%20in%20the%20Hood%20with%20Ted%20Brunson%20Hits%20O%27Connor%27s%20Deli%20in%20Edison%20Parkcontent
1/26/2014 10:19:00 PM
38th and 39th and 41st Wards regularly call Revenue because of vehicles with no plates on them.
We just send out our Security department with a Boot truck and there you go.
Isn't there a limit on new metered spots/areas under the (re-vised?) contract with the ticket company?
If you don't have parking I don't patronize your business.
When it comes to spending my money, it's all about my convenience.
I'm sure I am not alone in this thinking.
If you don't have a lot, you better have plenty of foot traffic.
Please move to the suburbs....I'm sure a night on the town for you involves either an Olive Garden or Red Lobster.
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Actually, we prefer LoneStar for a nice filet!
There are several options, liquid nails on a quarter, metal glue on a quarter, great stuff foam, or a plain old sledge hammer to the parking meter box !
Remember it's the Dept. Of Revenue that's hammering the shit out of Edison Park, not so much LAZ co.
FYI SCC on this whole thing...
Was talking to someone at work today (yeah...I'm that Bike guy)..
My co-worker told me there is a Standing Request from the 41st Ward and O'Connor specifically to deliberately enforce Edison Park school at morning drop off AND afternoon dismissal because of the Parents that park in the Crosswalks and on the Hydrants and in the Tow Zones or Double Park.
The request came to us because the District stopped writing anything other than the Rare Exp Plate or City Sticker ticket in the ward and the Alderman got tired of all the complaints from residents about the illegally parked suburban commuters.
Red Lobster kicks ASS!
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