{"id":311957,"date":"2010-02-12T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=18221"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:28:08","slug":"tinley-park-mayor-seeks-ways-to-ease-parking-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/311957","title":{"rendered":"Tinley Park mayor seeks ways to ease parking fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Residents have been coming up to Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki to tell him they don’t like the new price of parking at the 80th Avenue Metra parking lots.<\/p>\n

Parking permits and daily fees at village-owned commuter lots went up in January. The daily parking fees went up from $1 to $1.50.<\/p>\n

But it’s not the increased price that’s bugging most riders who pay to park per day, the mayor said. <\/span><\/p>\n

“The big ripple on the pond is the need to carry quarters,” Zabrocki said.<\/p>\n

So village officials are looking into short-term solutions for the coinage conundrum.<\/p>\n

One option is to offer monthly parking placards, stickers or tokens at the 80th Avenue lot, Zabrocki said.<\/p>\n

But those monthly permits would be different than those offered at the village’s other lots because the 80th Avenue lots were federally funded, village Manager Scott Niehaus said.<\/p>\n

For instance, people who buy their permits at the Oak Park Avenue lots keep their spots and their permits as long as they keep renewing them. Those spots can also be restricted to village residents.<\/p>\n

If a monthly pay system is instituted for the pay-per-day lots, the permits would be on a first-come, first-served basis each month and they’d be open to anyone, Niehaus said.<\/p>\n

The monthly fee for the pay-per-day lot would likely be $30, he said.<\/p>\n

Village employees are still working on the logistics of such a plan, including how to enforce the monthly permits, which potentially could take the form of placards hanging from the car’s rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

Currently, a community service officer checks to make sure the money collected in the pay box matches the number of cars parked in the lot.<\/p>\n

That system would be complicated if the officer had to check placards inside a car as well, trustees said.<\/p>\n

A plan for the lot will be presented to village officials in the next 30 days, Niehaus said.<\/p>\n

“As soon as we get the report, we’ll try to implement it as quickly as we can,” Zabrocki said.<\/p>\n

But Zabrocki points out any parking plan at the 80th Avenue station is just temporary.<\/p>\n

The aging station is set for a major overhaul starting this spring and that will include a card-based payment system for parking, Zabrocki said.<\/p>\n

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Residents have been coming up to Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki to tell him they don’t like the new price of parking at the 80th Avenue Metra parking lots. Parking permits and daily fees at village-owned commuter lots went up in January. The daily parking fees went up from $1 to $1.50. But it’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311957","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}