Parking Meter Politics
Chicago's city council faced pressure to sell its parking meters, leading to a 75-year privatization deal that drastically changed the management of street space. Historically low rates made meters ineffective, as the city collected more from parking tickets than from the meters themselves. The shift to private control was framed as a necessary step to raise rates that the city could not politically manage on its own.In this clip
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