{"id":1022,"date":"2017-07-13T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2017-07-13T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T19:15:47","slug":"chicago-street-parking-is-an-expensive-time-sucking-nightmare-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/chicago-street-parking-is-an-expensive-time-sucking-nightmare-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Street Parking Is An Expensive, Time-Sucking Nightmare, Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chicagoans\u00a0pay an average of $13 for two hours of street parking, a new report has found \u2014 meaning the city has the most expensive street parking in the United States.<br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/bam.nr-data.net\/1\/05ed9ce66f?a=2371850&amp;v=1016.8b58850&amp;to=Y1ZRZREFW0NUU0AMXlocclIXDVpeGlVMFV1dUFpFTBdBX0dJGwxfUFZL&amp;rst=1978&amp;ref=https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20170712\/downtown\/chicago-parking-most-expensive-in-us&amp;ap=392&amp;be=991&amp;fe=946&amp;dc=837&amp;af=err,xhr,stn,ins&amp;perf=%7B%22timing%22:%7B%22of%22:1499972965077,%22n%22:0,%22u%22:818,%22ue%22:834,%22f%22:2,%22dn%22:2,%22dne%22:2,%22c%22:2,%22ce%22:2,%22rq%22:773,%22rp%22:774,%22rpe%22:810,%22dl%22:774,%22di%22:1825,%22ds%22:1825,%22de%22:1919,%22dc%22:1922,%22l%22:1934,%22le%22:1941%7D,%22navigation%22:%7B%7D%7D&amp;at=TxFSE1kfSE0%3D&amp;jsonp=NREUM.setToken\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-body clearfix container news-story-page story-page visual chicago\">\n<div class=\"content-wrapper container original-content-type-story\">\n<div class=\"story-wrapper col-xs-12 our-col-sm-5 col-md-8 pull-left\" data-slideshow-zone=\"DNA_CHI\/slideshow\" data-override=\"\/chicago\/story\/downtown-south-loop-river-north\/downtown\/chicago-street-parking-is-expensive-time-sucking-nightmare-study-shows\" data-canonical-url=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20170712\/downtown\/chicago-parking-most-expensive-in-us\" data-topic=\"transportation\" data-hood=\"Downtown\" data-story-id=\"820459\" data-grouphood=\"Downtown, South Loop &amp; River North\" data-tags=\"transportation\" data-topics=\"Transportation\" data-chartbeat-sections=\"DNAinfo Chicago Downtown South Loop &amp; River North,DNAinfo Chicago,DNAinfo Chicago Transportation\" data-author-list=\"Kelly Bauer\" data-author=\"Kelly Bauer\" data-nsq-prompt=\"{&quot;isEditorial&quot;:false,&quot;author&quot;:{&quot;first_name&quot;:&quot;Kelly&quot;,&quot;last_name&quot;:&quot;Bauer&quot;},&quot;generic&quot;:{&quot;author&quot;:&quot;bacd57197f5caa0be0d2e1db6cc534dd&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dnainfo.com\\\/chicago\\\/20170712\\\/downtown\\\/chicago-parking-most-expensive-in-us&quot;,&quot;nbhd&quot;:&quot;138695&quot;}}\" data-ad-data=\"{&quot;zone&quot;:&quot;DNA_CHI\/story&quot;,&quot;sales_groups&quot;:&quot;chicago:lakeview,chicago:lincoln-park,chicago:loop,chicago:uptown,chicago:wicker-park&quot;,&quot;sales_group_primary&quot;:&quot;loop&quot;,&quot;sales_group_borough&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;uniform_resource_locator&quot;:&quot;www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20170712\/downtown\/chicago-parking-most-expensive-in-us&quot;,&quot;page_class&quot;:&quot;story&quot;,&quot;page_category&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\">\n<article class=\"story js-nsq js-infinite-scroll\">\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city&#8217;s street parking is even more expensive than in car-crowded New York ($7) and Los Angeles ($8), according to a report from INRIX, a company that creates apps for parking and traffic. The report collected data from\u00a0thousands of drivers\u00a0and more than 100,000 parking locations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two-hour\u00a0parking in a garage or in another area off the street\u00a0is even more expensive at $21.54 in Chicago, but other cities have it worse: New Yorkers pay $32.80 while people in Boston dish out $25.59.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report found Chicagoans\u00a0spend an average of nine minutes per trip looking for street parking and eight minutes for off-street parking. The time, fuel and emissions wasted on that search add up to $1,174 per driver every year \u2014 or $1.3 billion per year for all of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In comparison, New Yorkers spent 15 minutes looking for street parking and 13 minutes looking for off-street parking to the tune of $4.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People in Los Angeles and San Francisco each spend 12 minutes looking for street parking and 11 for off-street parking, which ends up costing people in those cities $3.7 billion and $655 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicagoans\u00a0pay an average of $13 for two hours of street parking, a new report has found \u2014 meaning the city has the most expensive street parking in the United States. The city&#8217;s street parking is even more expensive than in car-crowded New York ($7) and Los Angeles ($8), according to a report from INRIX, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/chicago-street-parking-is-an-expensive-time-sucking-nightmare-study-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago Street Parking Is An Expensive, Time-Sucking Nightmare, Study Shows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/505183858.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}