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• You know its cold when parking meters dont work

  
  RedEye — Authority: 584
  The 25 cents button is frozen on this parking paybox on East Delaware Place in Chicago, Thursday, December 10, 2009 (Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune) You know when youre a real Chicagoan when you can laugh off a frigid day like this. Then by that measure, our parking meters (the ones by LAZ parking) are not true ...
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• SEO Strategy: Short-term feeding vs long-term foundation-building

  
  Ad Your Comment Here — Authority: 109
  I’m working with a company in the B2B space that has an interesting but very common website case: They have an old, basic and static site It has very weak SEO They’re paying significant amounts of money for Google Adwords each month to get them page ranked They’re not tracking anything Luckily, ...
  2 days ago

• Sun-Times Catches Traffic Management Authority Parking ‘Illegally’

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  Monday’s Chicago Sun-Times spotlights a Traffic Management Authority worker allegedly parking illegally while she was out ticketing illegally parked motorists. Ironic hypocrisy right? Well, not so fast. Last Monday, Minarik’s car appeared to be in a metered zone on the west side of the street with no white ...
  3 days ago

• Everything is different at Solidere

  
  +961 — Authority: 112
  Parking meters around Beirut all allow free parking after 5 or 6 PM except in Solidere! As you can see in the below photo, free parking is only allowed after 11 PM (Monday to Saturday). In addition, as shown in the below photo a flat rate of 3,000L.L applies between 8 & 11 PM (Monday to Saturday), and to my ...
  4 days ago

• NY Times Reveals Abu Dhabi Owns 28% Of Chicago’s Parking Meters

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  According to an interesting piece in the Chicago edition of Sunday’s New York Times , Abu Dhabi owns a 28% stake in Chicago Parking Meters, LLC, the current concessionaire of the 37,000+ metered spaces of Chicago’s on street parking system. The article says the Persian Gulf emirate, and part of the United Arab ...
  4 days ago

• Fox Catches LAZ Vehicles Without City Stickers?

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  Fox 32 aired an interesting investigative piece Wednesday night. Reporter Dane Placko discovered that LAZ Parking, the operational partner of Chicago Parking Meters, LLC, has a fleet of vehicles which do not have any Chicago city vehicle stickers . A nice “gotcha” moment right? Well yes, and no and maybe. ...
  1 week ago

• Daley’s ‘Parking Meter’ Budget Passes

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  It’s being called “The Parking Meter” budget. That’s because Mayor Daley,  had to pillage the vast majority of the cash reserves generated from last year’s parking meter lease deal, in order to balance the 2010 budget. What was striking about the budget vote was 12 city council members voted against the ...
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• Toys for tickets a big success in Fort St. John

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Santa may make the list and check it twice, but its the parking meter enforcement officers who decide which drivers are naughty and which are nice. And in this northern B.C. city, for the month of December at least, theyre taki
  1 week ago

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  2009 has been a rough year for most everyone. Despite how tough it’s been, let me give you a few things we all should be thankful for. Your spouse or significant other, your kids or family members, a warm bed in a warm house, food on the table, and living free in the best country on earth. I’m sure there’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Geek Crashes Outside The Loop Radio 3rd Anniversary Party

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  OTL host Mike Stephen interviews The Parking Ticket Geek at Toons If you’re up Thanksgiving morning and have nothing better to do while cooking up your turkey in the kitchen, tune to WLUW 88.7 FM and listen to Outside The Loop Radio . OTL celebrates it’s third year on the air this Thanksgiving Thursday, with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reuters Writer Revisits Position On Meter Deal

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  When Reuters blogger Felix Salmon decided to chime in on recent revelations about Chicago’s parking meter lease deal, he somewhat hastily came to the conclusion that the $1.16 billion was a great deal for the city. Of course, the Parking Ticket Geek, in his typical twitchy, agitated and nerdy way, got all bent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Utrecht to start parking meter revolution with cell phones, GPS and green credentials

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 674
  Filed under: Etc. , Legislation and Policy , Europe/EU While paying for your parking meter using a cell phone is not a new thing, the Dutch city of Utrecht has announced a program that goes a step beyond. From April 1st 2010, citizens parking their cars in this city will need only a cell phone and their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is ParkMagic Dead?

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  Is ParkMagic’s pay-by-phone program dead? That’s the question a recent TimeOut Chicago article poses. The Parking Ticket Geek has been asking the same question, over and over for months now. If you’re not aware, ParkMagic is what’s called an in-car meter. Instead of feeding quarters or credit cards ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Dude Thinks Chicago’s Parking Meter Lease Was A Good Deal

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  Here’s a piece of advice. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t open your mouth. That’s the Geek’s way of remaining civil  and respectful, despite a very powerful urge to shout and loudly utilize very coarse language one shouldn’t use in front of a priest, a young child or your ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York Times’ Take On Recent Relevations Of Parking Meter Lease Deal

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  Friday’s New York Times has a very nice piece revealing more tawdry details of Chicago’s parking meter lease deal. Former Chicago Tribune city hall reporter Dan Mihalopoulous does a bang up job on the story. Here’s the full story, “ Company Piles Up Profits From City’s Parking Meter Deal .” Check it out ...
  2 weeks ago

• Geek, CBS 2 Teamup To Show City Vastly Undervalued Parking Meter Lease Deal

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  The Parking Ticket Geek and The Expired Meter teamed up with CBS 2 News Thursdsay night to report on some pretty amazing data about Chicago’s parking meter system and the meter lease deal. The information essentially confirms what most people knew already–Chicago vastly undervalued the meter lease deal by ...
  3 weeks ago

• NBC 5, Sun-Times: Parking Tickets Up, But Revenue Down

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  While parking ticket enforcement is up in Chicago, ticket revenue payments are down for the past four months. That’s according to a report by Carol Marin & Don Moseley last night on NBC 5 , and in today’s Sun-Times which both say, for May through August of 2009, ticket revenue is down $3.9 million from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chicago Blogging: Mayor Daley Sees Gold In Lake Michigan

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Hawthorne reports that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is mulling over whether to privatize water. Currently the city Dept. of Water Management controls the treated water from Lake Michigan that is sent to the taps/showers of every Chicagoan. Daley is thinking of leasing the system to a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ask The Parking Ticket Geek

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  Geek! I’ve gotten notice from the City of Chicago that they will now boot my vehicle because I have 11 tickets dating back to 1991. I am in bankruptcy and foreclosure and cannot afford to pay the tickets even on their “Hardship Program”. What about parking in garages and parking lots and never on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Voice: Parking Ticket Is Just Another Way To Say ‘Tax’

  
  theexpiredmeter.com — Authority: 128
  GEEK EDITOR’S NOTE : From time to time, we like to share the thoughts of other people than ourselves, who may have an opinion on a certain subject. Today we spotlight a frequent contributor of comments to this website, John Adams. Adams, like his founding father namesake, has strong views on freedom, liberty, ...
  3 weeks ago

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