The snow-induced “break’’ from paying parking meters continues.
Officials Saturday said downtown parkers can leave their cars on the street without fear of getting a ticket until 9 a.m. Monday. In the neighborhoods, parkers have until 9 a.m. Tuesday before they have to begin to again feed the payboxes.
On Friday, the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications announced the suspension of ticketing for parking meter violations, but said motorists should still pay if the parking spot was clear and the payboxes accessible after snow piled up from this past week’s blizzard.
As an e-mailer reminded us, whenever the city closes a metered street for a pre-planned festival or parade or whatever for over a certain number of hours, the city is contractually obligated to pay the meter company for any supposed revenue the meters would have generated.
Does a snow event fall into that category of having to pay those connected companies for un-generated revenue? Because that would be a typical Daley move.
Does a snow event fall into that category of having to pay those connected companies for un-generated revenue? Because that would be a typical Daley move.