Aldermen Wary of Daley's Parking Ticket Plan

Good news for those of us who seems to have this great ability to garner ourselves parking tickets. Justified or not. Although expect this thing to not go away so easily:

Political opposition has given the boot -- at least for now -- to Mayor Daley's proposal to drop the Denver boot threshold from three unpaid tickets to two.

The City Council's Finance Committee took no action today on the mayor's plan to squeeze scofflaws to put a $48 million dent in Chicago's $420 million budget shortfall -- and Ald. Bernard Stone (50th) thinks he knows why.

"They didn't have the votes to carry it. A lot of us don't want to vote for it. I don't think you should boot a person who has two tickets and on goes the boot. I thought three was too little," Stone said.

Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) said the two-ticket threshold has "a disparate impact on poor and working people who have trouble paying their tickets in the first place."

"If they can't get the money to pay the storage fees, then their car gets crushed and they're without transportation. ... The budget director should look elsewhere. Let's try to do something that ... takes a little bit of bite out of everybody instead of penalizing those people who have cars and are kind of at the margins in their ability to afford their cars," she said.

A lot of issues to consider in this article. Perhaps making the ticketing system more consistent. Still this is about revenue!