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    <title>Geek, CBS 2 Teamup To Show City Vastly Undervalued Parking Meter Lease Deal</title>
    <summary> The Parking Ticket Geek and The Expired Meter teamed up with CBS 2 News Thursdsay night to report on some pretty amazing data about Chicago&apos;s parking meter system and the meter lease deal....</summary>
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      <name>The Parking Ticket Geek</name>
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<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><div class="pkg embedded-image left" style="width: 150px;"><a rel="lightbox" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/parking-ticket-geek/assets_c/2009/11/pay-display-thumb-640xauto-34746.jpg" title="pay-display.jpg"><img alt="pay-display.jpg" src="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/parking-ticket-geek/assets_c/2009/11/pay-display-thumb-150x238-34746.jpg" class="mt-image-left" height="238" width="150" /></a></div></span>The Parking Ticket Geek and The Expired Meter teamed up with <a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/">CBS 2 News</a>
Thursdsay night to report on some pretty amazing data about Chicago's
parking meter system and the meter lease deal.<br /><br />
      <p>The information essentially confirms what most people knew already--Chicago <a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/local/LAZ.meter.lease.2.1323661.html" mce_href="http://cbs2chicago.com/local/LAZ.meter.lease.2.1323661.html">vastly undervalued the meter lease deal</a> by hundreds of millions of dollars.</p><p><br /></p>
<p>That's because with the higher rates and new pay and display meter units, the new meter company is raking in the revenue.</p><p><br /></p>
<blockquote><p>The internal documents obtained by CBS 2 and <a href="http://theexpiredmeter.com/" mce_href="../" target="_blank">theexpiredmeter.com </a>reveal
that LAZ Parking projects $75 million in proceeds next year, the second
year of the 75-year meter lease, with expenses of $15 million. That
would be a net income of $60 million.</p><p><br /></p></blockquote>
<p>Read the entire juicy report, "<a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/local/LAZ.meter.lease.2.1323661.html" mce_href="http://cbs2chicago.com/local/LAZ.meter.lease.2.1323661.html">New Data Shows City Losing Millions On Meter Deal</a>," and/or check out the <a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=64888@wbbm.dayport.com" mce_href="http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=64888@wbbm.dayport.com">video report here</a>.</p>
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