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So the city has a $420 million budget hole, the County sheriff refuses to enforce some evictions, crime is skyrocketing, and now Alderman Brendan Reilly (42nd) is pursuing a crusade against...valets. Reilly wants to change valet parking space requirements from 10 percent of a restaurant's seating capacity to 25 percent. So far this year, valet companies have been issued over 780 citations by police. Said Reilly:
People discover weeks, sometimes months, later that they've received parking tickets when they've left their vehicles with a valet. We see entire residential neighborhoods being taken over by valet-parked vehicles...We need to correct this bad behavior...The greatest demand for valet is in the evening. Many of the downtown parking facilities have excess capacity. There are available options.
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Sounds like a fine idea to me.
I've worked in a few restaurants and dealt with people who were livid when they found out they got tickets while the valets had their cars.
Yeah, I would never use a valet. If it's a fancy dinner out spring for a cab or car service. No worries about tickets, damage to the car or getting too soused to drive.
Unfortunately, it's often quite a bit cheaper, often by half, to drive and valet, as opposed to taking a cab both ways. I found that out when I had a broken ankle this summer and cabbed to a place in Wicker Park that offered $10 valet. I probably spent between $20 and $25 on the cab both ways.
Riley should also add to the ordinance that valet companys have to prove there employees have drivers lic. A valet with no D.L. strangely enough no ID at all hit one of my friends in a cross walk. The owner of the cars insurance paid the hosp bill but the valet never showed up to court.