Episodes Notes:
Chicago Doesn’t Own Its Own Streets

Sources & Citations

Citations reference first appearance, without repeating for subsequent usage:
[00:30] - Reuters: Chicago leases parking meters for $1.16 billion (2008)
[00:43] - NY Times: Company Piles Up Profits From City's Parking Meter Deal (2009)
[00:43] - NY Times: Abu Dhabi Shares Profits From Parking Meters (2009)
[01:27] - Metropolitan Planning Council: Chicago Parking Meter Analysis (2014)
[04:43] - United States Court of Appeals: Micah Uetricht and John Kaderbek v. Chicago Parking Meters, LLC (2023)
[05:08] - Chicago Reader: FAIL, Part Two: One BILLION Dollars! (2009)
[05:28] - Chicago Sun-Times: Parking meter deal gets even worse for Chicago taxpayers, annual audit shows (2023)
[05:47] - The Atlantic: Why Does Abu Dhabi Own All of Chicago's Parking Meters? (2010)
[06:19] - Henry Grabar: Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (link to purchase, 2023)
[06:52] - Better Government Association: Chicago’s Parking Meter Deal a Lesson in ‘Worst Practices’ (2010)
[07:31] - Courthouse News Service: Chicago’s decadeslong parking privatization contract goes before Seventh Circuit (2022)
[08:10] - City Council of the City of Chicago: Authorization for Execution of Concession and Lease Agreement and Amendment of Titles 2, 3, 9 and 10 of Municipal Code of Chicago in Connection with Chicago Metered Parking System. (2008)
[09:45] - Chicago Sun-Times: Parking meter deal Chicagoans love to hate gets worse — again (2020)
[10:17] - Office of the Inspector General, City of Chicago: Report of Inspector General’s Findings and Recommendations: An Analysis of The Lease of the City’s Parking Meters (2009)
[10:39] - Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley Group’s $11 Billion Makes Chicago Taxpayers Cry (2010)
[20:07] Donald C. Shoup: The High Cost of Free Parking (2004 Manuscript)
[20:17] - UCLA/Donald C. Shoup: The trouble with minimum parking requirements (1999)
[22:31] - United States Census Bureau: Nation’s Urban and Rural Populations Shift Following 2020 Census (2022)
[23:40] - KPMG: Independent Auditor’s Report - Chicago Parking Meters, LLC (2021)
[24:31] - Next City: Why Chicago’s Botched Parking Meter Privatization Is Also Bad for the Environment (2014)
[24:55] - Chicago Sun-Times: Half of Chicago neighborhoods lack electric vehicle chargers for public use (2023)
[26:59] - Office of the Mayor, City of Chicago: Mayor Emanuel Announces $1 Billion in Reduced Parking Meter Charges, Free Sundays and Pay-By-Cell for Chicago Parkers (2013)
[27:17] - Chicago Department of Transportation: Complete Streets Chicago (2013)