Parking in Evanston is a sham, he said to himself after getting two parking tickets in two days. I received a parking ticket for parking in front of my own house. I was unloading groceries and left my car, the one without an A-zone sticker, in front of my house until I had to leave for softball 25 min. later. Sure enough, I get out there and I have a $30 ticket. Dang!
The next day at 8:15 a.m., I come out of the NU gym, where I am a paying member, to find my car booted. Apparently, they ticket non-permitted cars starting at 7:30 a.m. Of course, telling the parking authority that I am a professor at Seabury (on NU’s campus) and that my wife is an administrator at NU didn’t help. Total cost: $175 for boot removal fee and $50 for the ticket.
So that leaves me with $255 in parking costs in two days for parking at the gym where I am a member and in front of my own house. What next? Are they–the omnipotent, omnipresent “they” who is out to get me—going to start charging me $1 for water and $4.00 for gas. Oh wait…
"This is our moment. This is our time." I believe!