Using and giving out parking tags...

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In Chicago, there are a lot of places where you're not allowed to park unless you have a special tag. An example would be residents who lives on the street. They're able to get a special sticker to park on the street. I would like to visit a friend who lives on that street. I'll have to have my friend give me a temporary tag for the day.

It's not just Chicago. It's usually in big towns such as Boston, San Francisco, or Miami.

I'm wondering if you've ever used parking tags from friends or handed out parking tags to visitors. Feel free to share your experience.

I never had to use or have to give out tags so I cannot speak of my experience.
 
Downtown Charleston is worse. It's not even a big city. It's only a mile square. The city doesn't even provide the residents with reserved parking. They just accumulate parking tickets.

My daughter has a residential client downtown. The client has told her to park in front of her house each week, and if she gets tickets to just give them to her and she (the client) will pay for them.

When Hubby has to park downtown to do a job, he has to rent a space for $35 per day. He has to go the day before to the police department to get a special locking cover for the meter and cover the meter to save his parking space. When he's done, he has to turn it back in. It's a real hassle.
 
My daughter is having this same problem at UC Davis. There are 30,000 students and 3,000 parking spaces. She recently moved further away from the school so can not ride a bike. She keeps getting $45 parking tickets. She missed a few and ended up paying $90 each. When she gets back and returns to school, she definitely will have to find a solution to this.

Years ago, when single, I lived in a townhouse. You needed a permit to park there and just tenants only. My guests had to park on the street and walk in.
 
Reba said:
Downtown Charleston is worse. It's not even a big city. It's only a mile square. The city doesn't even provide the residents with reserved parking. They just accumulate parking tickets.

My daughter has a residential client downtown. The client has told her to park in front of her house each week, and if she gets tickets to just give them to her and she (the client) will pay for them.

When Hubby has to park downtown to do a job, he has to rent a space for $35 per day. He has to go the day before to the police department to get a special locking cover for the meter and cover the meter to save his parking space. When he's done, he has to turn it back in. It's a real hassle.
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We have streets that allow parking all day and night for residents living on that street , if you 'do not 'live on the street you can only park on it for 2 hours . I bet people move their car to the other side of the street and try to park for 2 more hours . A lot houses do not have driveway in my city.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
We have streets that allow parking all day and night for residents living on that street , if you 'do not 'live on the street you can only park on it for 2 hours . I bet people move their car to the other side of the street and try to park for 2 more hours . A lot houses do not have driveway in my city.
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Evanston, IL has the exactly same rule as this!! You would as well be talking about Evanston.
 
dereksbicycles said:
In Chicago, there are a lot of places where you're not allowed to park unless you have a special tag. An example would be residents who lives on the street. They're able to get a special sticker to park on the street. I would like to visit a friend who lives on that street. I'll have to have my friend give me a temporary tag for the day.

It's not just Chicago. It's usually in big towns such as Boston, San Francisco, or Miami.

I'm wondering if you've ever used parking tags from friends or handed out parking tags to visitors. Feel free to share your experience.

I never had to use or have to give out tags so I cannot speak of my experience.
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Farwell Ave west of Clark to Ravenswood has strict parking-- some of it has permit parking, and some of it you're not supposed to park there, because there's a car wash, and the exit is on Farwell, and the parking spots in front of that exit is supposed to be clear. If it's not, the owner of that car would get a hefty ticket for illegal parking and/or obstruction of safe exiting. You see, Farwell between Clark and Ravenswood has a narrow space, and not a lot of margin for error. Now, as for past Ravenswood, the parking there is up for grabs, because no one has special parking permits here in my area, but if you go past Wolcott, it turns into a one-way street, and remains that way, so unless one wants to wait a long time for turning onto Ridge, it's advisable to turn onto Wolcott and go to either Pratt or Lunt to use either stoplight to make a safe turn onto Ridge.
 
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