The Parking Ticket Geek offers up a potpourri of ticket and parking related news to keep you up informed and up to date.
Hinsdale up in arms over MLK Day parking tickets.
Some drivers who parked at downtown Hinsdale parking meters on Martin Luther King’s birthday got an unpleasant surprise. 19 drivers erroneously assumed it was a [...]
Archive for the ‘Chicago Parking Tickets’ Category
February 3rd, 2010
Ticket Tidbits: Hinsdale outrage, Evanston cell phone ban, Springfield boots 22
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February 2nd, 2010
Redeye Discusses Parking Meter Rate Increases With Drivers
In today’s RedEye, reporter Kyra Kyles spent a day talking to drivers in the South Loop, Bronzeville, and Roseland to see how they’re reacting to the new meter rates.
Kyles’ article seems to come to the conclusion that many people are avoiding parking and paying the new meter rates. In one case, one man drives with [...]
January 29th, 2010
Racist ‘Parking Tickets’ Show Up In County Board Race
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According to a news report from NBC 5, political fliers designed to look like Chicago parking tickets and placed on the windshield of cars in the South Loop, attack Ald. Toni Preckwinkle who’s running in the Democratic Primary for Cook County Board [...]
January 27th, 2010
Ask The Parking Ticket Geek
Dear Parking Ticket Geek,
I was wondering if you can help me.
I’m so tired and angry with the city of Chicago. I hate giving my money to the city of Chicago. I received a meter ticket yesterday because the meter was expired by 7 minutes. Can I beat this ticket?
Thanks,
Irma
Sorry Irma,
But the answer is N-O– no.
One [...]
January 22nd, 2010
Ticket Trap Game Teaches Drivers How To Avoid Parking Tickets
Can I park here?
That’s the question that confounded John Staniszewski for many years when he was living in his native Brooklyn.
It was his frustration with confusing parking signs which led to Staniszewski’s car being ticketed many, many times over the years.
“No matter where I parked in Brooklyn there was a different regulation and I would [...]
January 20th, 2010
Oregon Man Arrested For Feeding Strangers’ Parking Meters
UPDATE #2: This seems to be a huge, HUGE story in Eugene. A more recent report from KEZI TV devotes over 10 minutes of video news coverage to this story and provides testimony from witnesses that back up Mr. Bond’s story and that he did not harass the parking enforcement officer in the way described [...]
January 19th, 2010
WBBM Radio Reports Uptick In Ticket Revenue
Revenue from parking ticket fines are up by $1.5 million in 2009 over 2008.
At least according to our friends over at Newsradio 780 AM.
Veteran news reporter Craig Dellimore, reports that $12.5 million in parking ticket fines were raked in during 2008, but rose to $14 million in 2009, a 12% increase.
The city claims the increase [...]
January 18th, 2010
UN Diplomats Owe NYC $18 Million In Parking Ticket Fines
Ouch!
$18 million in parking fines.
That’s the total amount United Nations’ diplomats from 180 countries owe New York City according to a press release from Representative Anthony Weiner, of New York’s 9th Congressional District.
“It’s insulting to all New Yorkers that countries like Yemen, Zimbabwe and Iran owe the City millions in unpaid parking tickets,” Congressman Weiner said via press release. “Diplomats [...]
January 14th, 2010
Daley Proposes Free Pass On Expired Meter Tickets
Wednesday morning, just outside City Council chambers inside City Hall, an embattled Mayor Daley offered Chicago motorists a bit of a break.
If approved by the City Council, the Mayor wants to allow any motorist one free pass on an expired meter ticket per year.
But, there is a catch…or two.
The ticket must have been issued less [...]
January 8th, 2010
Should Police Be Allowed To Park Illegally?
“Hey Parking Ticket Geek, is there anything the Chicago Po-Po can’t getaway with? ” P, a friend of the website asked regarding the above photo he sent. “The other day I was running back to my car in Wicker Park to add more money in the meter and look what I found! It was parked [...]
