Chicagoist: Pay-and-Display on the Way?

Lee Darrow

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:43:43 -0600

m - i the last two months, I have had to cruise our neighborhood (the area bordered by Clark, Glenwood, Balmoral and Berwyn) for over an hour, no fewer than twelve times when trying to park during the hours between 7PM and midnight. And my wife has had to do the same thing at least a eighteen times as well. We both work a lot of evening jobs, obviously, and the parking situation with the valets from several of the restaurants parking customer's cars on our streets is becoming a REAL problem. Add the construction on the alley between Summerdale and Berwyn (an on-again-off-again thing for FIVE YEARS now!) and it's even worse now! Sorry for the slow comeback on this. It's been a busy season, we're preparing to move and, as an entertainer, I am REALLY up to my ears in work right now..!

m

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:01:39 -0600

Lee, I lived in Andersonville and never had trouble parking. I don't see how anyone would need to drive around for an hour looking for parking.

Bill V

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:50:44 -0600

I love those boxes. It's so much easier to pull a couple of bills or the credit card out than search for quarters. I'll bet meter boxes are around for a lot longer in certain neighborhoods, but downtown the electronic boxes are great.

Lee Darrow

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:54:43 -0600

If my neighborhood is any example, using these boxes will COST each block at least SIX parking places because Chicago drivers don'e know HOW to parallel park! Ask anyone who lives in Andersonville where we have to orbit the neighborhood sometimes for an HOUR, just to find a parking spot within four BLOCKS of our homes, but where people park SO badly that an extra six to ten cars COULD be parked per block if spaces WERE marked!