Weeks, and thousands of complaints later, LAZ Parking, is promising to get a grip on all the broken meters via expanding hours from 11-13 per day, go to a seven day a week maintenance schedule, and hire more employees to assist with collections.
According to Fran Spielman’s Sun-Times story, Vandalism at parking meters up after rate hike, LAZ is also moving up their timeline to replace all single head parking meters with Pay & Display units with the first new units scheduled to begin getting installed within a few weeks.
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Well perhaps, juuuuust perhaps, and I only sayin’, iftheassholeshadn’tscrewedusoverwiththeseripoffratesperhapstheirmeterswouldnotbefuckedwith! I’m just sayin’, ya know?
IP….the meters were mostly broken BEFORE the Lease took effect.
When the Revenue mechanics found out that their jobs were being outsources to a Morgan Stanley owned Firm (headed by a nephew of the Mayor no less) they started to “slow down” their work. I don’t blame them.
LAZ took over the meters “As Is” and have 6 months to get up to the Cashless Option standard that you see on Most City pay lots (coin or CC).
This is a Daley scam that was rubber stamped by the crooks in the Council.
one thing that I was reading today, the company morgan stanley did not make the decision of the parking rates that went into effect it was the city and your alderman that set the rates for the next 75 years. . Blame the mayor and alderman not that company.
OK, I parked tonight on Wabash, attending a benefit, near Exchequer Restaurant.Parking there used to be free after 6 pm, now 24/7, $3,50 until 9 pm and $1,75 9 pm until 8 am (I believe), anyhow these amounts did not matter for that meter, as it ate and ate my quarters, to make the 1.5 h parking I planned to park. One quarter could give 2 minutes, 3 minutes, etc., I think that i paid about $7, for what should have been $5,25. Moreover, walking across afterward I saw that the meters, those that use credit cards, are still free after 6 PM. Couldn’t they at least have the decency to synchronize the meters in one street and while the new fees are implemented?
I hear from many suburban that they will think twice to dine in the city now (unless they have to) and rather stay in the suburbs. I think that this is going to cost the city (tax revenue) and its businesses dearly, as if there are already not enough empty storefronts. This whole thing is a total rip-off, and I hope that people-power will be so strong so that fees will be returned to a civil level.
OK, I parked tonight on Wabash, attending a benefit, near Exchequer Restaurant.Parking there used to be free after 6 pm, now 24/7, $3,50 until 9 pm and $1,75 9 pm until 8 am (I believe); anyhow these amounts did not matter for that meter, as it ate and ate my quarters, to get to the 1.5 h parking I planned to park. One quarter gave 2 minutes, 3 minutes, etc., I think that I paid over $7, for what should have been $5,25. Moreover, walking across afterward I saw that the meters, those that use credit cards, are still free after 6 PM. Couldn’t they at least have the decency to synchronize the meters in one and the same street while the new fees are implemented?
I hear from many suburban that they now think twice to dine in the city (unless they have to) and rather stay in the suburbs. I think that this is going to cost the city (tax revenue) and its businesses dearly, as if there are already not enough empty storefronts. This whole thing is a total rip-off, and I hope that people-power will be so strong resulting in Morgan Stanley and LAZ instead of fleecing, fleeing the city and fees being returned to a civil level.
The meters belong to the people of Chicago just as much as they do to LAZ parking / Morgan Stanley. Our tax dollars were used by Morgan Stanley because they go federal bailout funds. therefore I don’t think ANY meters were vandalized. Instead it looks like some taxpayers decided to REDECORATE” some of their own meters , with spray paint , duct tape and expanding foam. From the pictures I have seen , the REDECORATION” efforts look nice. Ae there more changes on the way?