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Thursday, January 02, 2003
If there's any silver lining for Seth, it might be that if he had gotten the ticket today, it would be $38 instead of $28 because of the city's efforts to balance the 2003 budget.That's right, it's the time of year for budget-minded pols to find ways to hold the citizens upside-down by the ankles and shake really hard. I thought Chicago was alone in this regard when it made capricious changes to the "booting" laws as a means to rectify budget problems. This is basically how it goes in Chicago: 1) Make it impossible, via permit parking, street cleaning, and snow route rules, for people to successfully park anywhere in the more heavily-trafficked areas of the city, 2) Ticket the suckers who inevitably get caught in these parking traps, 3) Arbitrarily change the boot law so that it no longer takes ten, six, or five parking tickets to get booted, but a mere three (3!), 4) Have the mayor go on TV and tell everyone angrily that the city is "going after the scofflaws" by booting their cars and then absconding with them when the owners can't or won't pay. All of this in the name of getting their grubby mitts on more taxpayer money so they can make up for the amounts wasted from the prior year that put them in the red in the first place. The entire traffic regulatory system in the city is nothing but a cat-and-mouse game between motorist and city in which the city's goal is not to ensure safety or a reasonable reduction in congestion. It is simply to tap into what they believe is an endless source of funds. Is it any wonder why a crowded, nigh-impossible-to-park area of the city such as Lakeview has three times as many days of street cleaning than a quiet, garage-populated neighborhood such as Jefferson Park? No, because the event is simply an excuse to "ticket" rather than "clean." posted by the wolf | 4:47 PM
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