Since Lightfoot took office in May 2019, the new parking meter spots have collected $14.6 million from drivers.
Jonathan Martinez, 16, uses a parking meter near Montrose Harbor on Aug. 10, 2022, in Chicago.
Now ticket writers are “like vultures on a branch waiting for prey,” ready to swoop down and slap the unwelcome orange envelopes on windshields outside businesses on Lincoln, Kinsler said.Gary Kinsler, who owns Autohaus car repair shop on Lincoln Avenue, said the parking meter zone installed outside his shop has made doing business tougher for him and angered his customers who sometimes get tickets, Aug. 3, 2022. Kinsler pays the tickets in order to keep his customers happy.
The new meters are the latest twist in an ongoing saga that has enraged Chicagoans for more than a decade, focused mostly on the city’s decision 14 years ago to sell control of all citywide parking meters for 75 years. The private firm already has recouped its investment plus another $500 million and counting.
A U-Haul vehicle was given a parking ticket in the 4000 block of Broadway in Chicago, near a U-Haul rental location, on Aug. 3, 2022.
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