TAN#194 UnimporTANt Chatter (Page 23)

I bet it would take less if you had your own car.

Question - how do you get there? Do you take a train, cab, zip car, bicycle ?

Curious as if I move to a big enough city I might not want to deal with an automobile of my own.

And he has come across Pitt's mom.

Chicago is a much bigger city with better transportation infrastructure than Pittsburgh, and I remember that in Pittsburgh a car was more of a hassle than it was worth.  Parking nightmare, street sweeping, traffic hell, blech.

With the fat man azz or bewbs?

I read an article a few years ago about the Pittsburgh parking melee. They built the stadiums then tried to use the parking revenues to pay for the stadiums and chased-away businesses who had trouble hiring people unless the business paid for parking then the business eventually relocated to the suburbs leaving limited revenue to pay for the stadiums. 

Austin just bought a bunch of those rent-a-bikes.  Supposed to start that program real soon.  They are also dropping their zoning rules that businesses have parking so people start using the public transportation more.

the parking disaster existed before they built the stadiums, and the parking by the stadiums was there in the days of three rivers...it's not just the cost but the HASSLE.  there is no parking to be found in the residential areas!

Funny story. One of my friends who lives in Chicago has a car but rarely uses it. Parked it on the street for a few days at a time, then would have to move it, etc.

Her car got stolen but she didn't realize it for 3 days!

Sorry to hear that.  Hope he feels better and hope you don't get it as well.  Sick cop = unnecessary tickets...

Roger that. Thanks.

Yes, where we were, we walked down the water front/Navy Pier/whatever it is called there.  We were there for the King Tut exhibit quite a few years ago.  I saw the original King Tut exhibit in New Orleans back in the late 70's as a kid, and this was not the same thing and a lot less of quality things compared to the original.  I freaked out when I paid our monthly house payment in two day hotel stay and then had to spend $50.00 to park my truck.  We walked by a nice grocery store that was in that area, so I could see the easy walk to get quality food where you live.  I am sure everything else is easily within walking distance also as you said above.

Hey TAN.

We're in the Chicago 'burbs now.  I try to avoid driving downtown when possible, but when we do, I just bite the bullet and know parking is going to be +/- $30.  The bright side is that when we travel/drive in most other cities (NY excluded), I feel like I've won the lottery when I pay to leave the garage.  I paid $3 in after parking for the day in Milwauke and felt like I was about to get caught doing something wrong . . .  "act natural, don't make any sudden movements and drive away slowly."