{"id":304747,"date":"2010-02-10T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a887f2bf970b"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:23:21","slug":"drivers-get-one-free-five-minute-parking-meter-holiday-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/304747","title":{"rendered":"Drivers get one free, five-minute parking meter holiday a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Tribune staff<\/em> at 1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers will be able to get one parking meter ticket a year thrown out, provided they held onto their pay box receipt and the violation was issued within five minutes of the expiration.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council approved Mayor Richard Daley&#8217;s plan today, a few weeks after <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/01\/drivers-could-get-one-parking-meter-grace-period-per-year.html\">he first proposed it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The change will assist motorists who are occasionally ticketed for accidentally overstaying the time on their pay box receipt by a few minutes, despite trying to comply with parking requirements by purchasing adequate parking time,&quot; Daley said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>The revision also allows drivers with unexpired receipts who move their cars to another metered spot to use the same pay receipt, provided the new parking spot is at the same or lesser hourly rate.<\/p>\n<p>Daley administration officials have said City Hall<br \/>\nalways has instructed employees issuing parking tickets not to cite<br \/>\ncars when the meter has just expired.<br \/>\nThe new ordinance codifies that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">The breaks for motorists come after a year in which Daley leased<br \/>\nthe parking meter system to a private company for 75 years in return<br \/>\nfor a one-time windfall he&#8217;s dipping into to balance his budget. The<br \/>\nlease resulted in major rate increases last year and this year and a<br \/>\npublic backlash against the mayor and aldermen who approved it.<\/p>\n<p>Daley previously has said he was pushing the parking ticket change because of ongoing anger over the parking meter lease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Tribune staff at 1:20 p.m. Drivers will be able to get one parking meter ticket a year thrown out, provided they held onto their pay box receipt and the violation was issued within five minutes of the expiration. The City Council approved Mayor Richard Daley&#8217;s plan today, a few weeks after he first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}