Mayor Daley's Faulty Math on Parking Meter Increases

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Mayor Richard Daley today scoffed at complaints that next month's increases in parking meter rates would affect people in many Chicago neighborhoods.

The mayor said there are "very few (meters) in the neighborhoods. It's about 80 percent downtown-80, 85 percent downtown in 2 or 3 wards. It's not in the communities."

In fact, of the city's 34,264 metered spots, about 8,100 are in the 42nd and 2nd Wards that cover downtown. That's only about one-fourth of them, not the four-fifths Daley claimed.

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