Comments on: BREAKING NEWS: ‘CPM Has Substantially Improved…’ Says City

By: Spreading the privatization gospel |

Spreading the privatization gospel | — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:20:32 +0000

[...] name his “sources,” but their view sounds a lot like the Daley administration’s take on things [...]

By: theexpiredmeter.com » Blog Archive » Chef Daley Serves Up A Dish Chicago Just Can’t Stomach

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:06:35 +0000

[...] stench refused to dissipate after the city and the new lessee claimed they had fixed all the problems about three weeks ago. But just last week, a massive failure of over 250, or nearly half of the new [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:03:14 +0000

The lack of cars in metered spaces is amazing. An irony of the pay and display units is that they boost the “productivity” of any vandal. A vandal need only ruin one machine to wipe out the equivalent of lots of meters. Not only is the vandal’s effectiveness is increased, but the crime uses less time to commit – meaning better chance of getting away with it. Consider the Irving Park case with the 20 meters. It would only take seconds to jam the pay/display unit instead of minutes.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:29:41 +0000

I’d like to see someone with no education try to “educate” me, a masters degree holder. Good luck with that.

By: The Parking Ticket Geek

The Parking Ticket Geek — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:05:23 +0000

Thanks for the info and input BXK.

I’m seeing the same thing–dramatically reduced street parking.

By: BXK

BXK — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:58:15 +0000

Local hood just had the pay boxes installed last Thursday or Friday….haven’t seen a single “educator” on the street helping parkers.

Oh, maybe that’s because NOBODY parks there anymore.

But I suppose when the government says something, we should accept it as true.

By: theexpiredmeter.com » Blog Archive » Hearings On Parking Meter Lease Cancelled

Sat, 16 May 2009 05:34:10 +0000

[...] cancellation comes suspiciously, just 24 hours before the city’s Friday press release, addressing the multitude of issues with the transition of the parking meters from the city to the [...]

By: D Kropp

D Kropp — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:08:31 +0000

Remember how a bad snowstorm swept incompetence out of City Hall in the early 80s?

This meter situation, which discourages urban commerce right in the middle of a nationwide depression, will do the same thing.
The idea itself, dumping 100 million into city coffers while residents pay many times that to some outside company, is downright criminal.

By: theexpiredmeter.com » Blog Archive » The Geek On CBS 2 News At 10

theexpiredmeter.com » Blog Archive » The Geek On CBS 2 News At 10 — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:19:46 +0000

[...] Levine and the Geek discuss the city’s recent press release regarding Chicago Parking Meters, LLC and [...]

By: Illinois Patriot

Illinois Patriot — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:08:06 +0000

And this crap came out of a political mouth…what a load of shit!