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Posted on 11/15/2011 5:33:22 AM PST by Graybeard58
There will always be miscreants that scoff at the law. The larger picture is being missed here: the city is charging $3 an hour for parking! for someone working an 8 hour day, that’s $24 bucks for the priviledge of providing the City of Chitcago with city and state wage taxes, or $120 a week. In the same way that ordinary folks in Canada were turned into “smugglers” for buying cigs in the US because the taxes were so high per pack, taxpayers (read “ordinary folks”) are responding in kind.
And like any enterprising citizen that have regressive taxes forced on them by government,many turn a buck by renting these placards. Now, like I said, I don’t condone the actions of a bunch of jerks out there parking closer at the mall or grocer that shouldn’t be, and causing problems and pain for those that deserve to park there, but it seems there are a lot of people that are simply avoiding paying the exhorbitant parking fees dowtown to go to work, and is not an issue of inconvenience for a handicapped person deprived of a closer parking space or ramp.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t work downtown, and don’t live in Chitcago
On this subject...they should do away with handicapped parking spots and just let those with cards use two parking spaces.
**There will always be miscreants that scoff at the law. The larger picture is being missed here: the city is charging $3 an hour for parking!**
Thanks for the link Arrowhead. Unbelievable!
That wouldn't cut down on the distance they would have to walk or wheel chair to, the entrance of whatever they are patronizing.
That sounds steep to me too but I haven't had to use parking meters in cities, that much, since the meters would take pennies and nickles.
I live in NotChicago, Illinois.
I haven't read all the replies yet and maybe somebody already weighed in on parking rates in N.Y.C., I've heard that they are outlandish.
As opposed to my mother who will be 91 in 2 days. She uses a shopping cart to lean on, to get into the store and leans on it to do her shopping. She has arthritis pretty bad and could get a placard but she refuses to do that or use an electric cart. She's not overweight either, she says she doesn't want people to, "think she's lazy".
She owns one of those electric scooters, weather permitting, she sometimes uses it to wheel around in her large yard.
Same people who spend forty minutes driving up and down the mall parking lot aisles looking for the close-in spot, instead of walking twenty yards. Lazy.
My wife got one when she popped her achilles, the key is usually the doctor’s note.
I fail to see how an extra 50-100 ft will keep them home.
How can they tell just by looking at someone? I got a permit at age 44 due to having a form of muscular dystrophy which affects my legs (and arms), as well as kidney failure, (which caused weakened bones). Could they tell I had renal osteodystrophy, putting me at high risk for a fracture from a fall just by looking at me? Could they see my feet which are misshapen (and chronically painful) through my orthotics and shoes? Appearances CAN be deceiving.
6 months is for the temporary placard, which is red. The blue “permanent” placards are good for life, but need to be renewed every 5 years.
See post 33.
Exactly. My 26 year old daughter in law has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Nobody would know just from looking at her that she has anything wrong with her. She also has a 18 month old baby whom is in the 95 percentile for height and weight. Sometimes she will dislocate a joint/s just picking him up and lose her ability to remain standing. People need to stop being so judgmental. Things aren't always as they appear.
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