Everyone always complains that the price of everything in the city
is always more expensive than outside. For instance, a $7 drink here
may cost you $13 in a big city. Higher prices have even found their way
into law enforcement within many major cities.
Just
recently, the San Francisco Chronicle released an article stating that
the price of parking tickets will raise substantially to $75 per
ticket. This ticket fine will set you back just about the same as a
meal at a nice restaurant. Ticket fines in San Francisco will be the
highest fines for a parking ticket than any other city in the nation...
only barely beating New York and Chicago who both have $65 fines. While
you may think "Well these are large cities and have a lot of traffic
that needs to be monitored carefully," other major cities such as New
Orleans and Philadelphia only have $20-$25 tickets.
It never fails that on a busy Saturday
night here at the Uptown, we always get comments that people had to
walk a few blocks or had difficulty finding parking spots around the
building. But think about it - if you go to a major city, most parking
spots that aren't run by a meter will set you back $25-$50 for only a
couple hours of parking and you're still going to have to walk a good
distance to get anywhere close to shopping districts or tourist spots.
I would never expect LaSalle's $10 parking ticket violations to ever reach $75. Plus, having to walk only two or three blocks to get to my destination isn't all that bad. So save yourself a little bit of extra money by avoiding those large tickets and come see us... where we promise that our prices never reach big city limits.
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