well, it finally happened... 3795Brent P) Sure it does: how much does it cost to park your car downtown all day? Some people would rather park it for free and take the "L." I've lived in...
That's not the reason. Nobody needs to drive to the 12th street redline station. The red line is CTA 'L'. It doesn't make any sense what so ever to drive there. The reason that area is permit parking is probably because it's a newer development and that's all. The people moving into chicago proper are main cause of this disease. They are peeed that they cannot have the expectation of the same street parking every day like they did when they lived in northbrook or whatever suburb or corn field town they came from. On state street it's solider-field events only and my guess it's the same on next street over.
When the available parking is decreased, it does. That's what the permit parking does.
Because there are empty spots one cannot use and more people are fighting for the few other spots.
Like you've done this dance. You left chicago long before this started. Hell, when I moved out of the city proper it was still limited to the immediate areas around comiskey park and wrigley field and ONLY on game days.
It's not because of a f***ing L stop. Why don't you put two feet on the ground in that 'hood as I have?
I didn't say it wasn't stupid, but that's what happens.
He has this uptopian idea centered around buses bringing people to the train stations.
