Ps. Get a Grip, Jan Quillman Joliet City Council
The current parking rates and fines “ridiculous. I’ve been preaching about this for a couple of years.” Said Jan Quillman – Joliet City Council
City officials are looking into raising the parking rates at meters and in parking garages as well as the price of parking tickets.
Let’s see how this affects down town Joliet Illinois:
| Union Station train lots would increase from $18 now to $40.
Do us tax payers just stop going to work or do we travel to another area to get on a train. Lets see isn’t that lost revenue for Joliet. Monthly permits in the Ottawa Street and Scott Street decks would rise from $25 now to $40 and parking meters going from 25 cents an hour now to 50 cents in some areas and $1 in others.. Downtown businesses will surely suffer because if I am going to have to pay $40 monthly which is $480 a year and if people are going to have to pay up-to $8.00 a day for parking at meters, I wonder long it will be before people just stop coming to the downtown area. |
What I should say to people Like Jan Quillman is get off your fucking High horse and ask some body with common sense and intelligence what she as a council member should do, clearly she doesn’t represent the people that elected her, what she does do is represents her pocket book and her bank account which clearly is the Joliet city treasury. I bet these city and county officials look out their windows and they drool to the thought of “walking pay checks”
What’s next, place Fines on people that are homeless or continue to increase the burden on the Joliet tax payers back.
Parking tickets at the meter Current fines (in place since 1981)
$3 if paid in 48 hours │$5 if paid between 48 hours and 30 days │$10 if paid between 30 and 60 days
Proposed fines
$15 if paid in 10 days │$30 if paid between 11 and 30 days│$75 after 30 days
To me it sounds like a juice loan from a loan shark, when it comes to the fees that Joliet wants to collect.
What’s next sells the rights to city parking meters like Chicago did? Or rent out our parks to lumber jacks.
Is Joliet trying to drive more people away from downtown? Maybe the rumors I hear are true, there is some developer trying to buy down town property and there is a need to lower property values. Because adding additional costs doesn’t raise property values does it?
Suggestions to Joliet City Council: Maybe instead of raising the rates on the parking meters you should extend the times when the meters are in use.
How about “no free days of parking or even better make all city employees and county members have to pay instead of getting free parking”…Bet that adds up to boo”ku”bucks.
