Please tell me something's wrong with my math.
$1.15 Billiion
36,000 meters
75 years

Did Daley just sell the meters for less than $1.50/day?!

Mayor Daley's "solution" to the snowy and icy streets is to "slow down" while driving. Even if you are driving on a sheet of ice at 15 mph your car can still fishtail and you can lose control of your automobile and end up damaging your car, damaging another car, injuring someone in another car, injurying passerbys---just by "slowing down". The problem is the ice and having to drive on it and walk on it.

Snow removal is a VITAL, MAJOR city service. Snow removal stands shoulder-to-shoulder with police, fire, ambulances, and garbage removal.

Without adequate snow removal, situations will spiral downward. People will be badly injured, killed, maimed, lives will be ruined, property will be devastated, we are talking about men, women and children, people of all ages.

My neighbor's husband has a tow truck business and in the past 2 days he has towed more demolished autos than he has all year. I found that to be surprising and shocking and I myself saw a demolished car being towed today.

The issue of not plowing side streets during weekends, no snow removal/clearing services at all. We did not get much snow this week but the black ice on the streets was trecherous. Cars parked on residential streets were hit by cars sliding out of control and continuing on, thus leaving the car owner with a badly damaged vehicle. That would have been avoided if only the salt trucks were to run up and down the side streets.

People are saying that they will shovel their own streets. But the point is, is that we are paying taxes for this vital city service: snow removal. If it snows every other day, will those people who brag that they'll shovel their own streets be out there every other day? Or will they throw down their shovels and say "we're paying for this city service, we're doing THEIR job!" Yeah, you'll be hearing them complaining about shoveling snow for hours and their back hurts and why isn't the City doing anything about this?

There is an issue of the haves and have nots. People on the north side think us south siders are all crazy because they have salted streets and wonder why the south siders are complaining so much about the "black ice" which is totally non-existant where they live. Why were the north side streets fully cleaned and salted and the south side was not, especially in the black areas?

When we do have a heavy snow on a weekend and that's happened many times during many winters. A fire breaks out in a home in the middle of the block, the fire and ambulances can't get through. You finish this scenario.

Nobody in power should be so heartless. We hear of the billions of dollars being brought in via the leasing of the Skyway and Midway Airport and now the leasing of the parking meters. I hear all of that will be going into some kind of an "Olympics Fund" and into many others pockets. Yet we are paying taxes, fees, etc. and having to do with less and less.

It only makes sense to our obsessed Mayor. Obsessed like never before, like I've never seen, so hell-bent on getting the Olympics to Chicago when nobody really thinks that's any big deal. It's a very shameful obsession. Our Mayor, our leader should be obsessed with keeping his city in the best, top notch shape with citizens who are proud to live here.

But this is what it is, Chicago is not a pretigious city to live in. The black, squirming underbelly, the stinkng rotting corruption that is in our face every day when we read the newspaper, that is what Chicago is. Not at all proud of itself the way Chicago's leaders treat their own residents. Making us pay and pay and pay while shrinking services to less than the bare minimum. Putting people out of their jobs so their salary can help fund the Olympics cause.

This is what all of this is about, the Olympics. The Olympics are the be-all and the end-all to Mayor Daley's life at this time and it will never, never end. The Olympics is what drives the Mayor, he lives and breathes the Olympics to a fever pitch. It's not just Chicago that is paying for the Olympics, it's all of Cook County.

Mayor Daley "sold" each parking meter for $1.17 per day over 75 years.

1.15 billion dollars

36,000 meters X 365 days X 75 years = 985,500,000 Meter days per length of contract.

1.15 billion / 985,500,000 meter days = $1.17 per day

Mayor Daley "sold" or "long term leased" each Chicago parking meter out for 75 years at $1.17 per day per parking meter.