Chicago Doesn’t Own Its Own Streets - eviltoast

Chicago is held hostage by a 75 year lease of its parking meters to Morgan Stanley, impacting public transport and alternate transportation funding.

  • intelati@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Story still pisses me off to the day I heard about it.

    TL,DR: in the dead of night bulldozers physically tore up portions of runway. Standing 50+ airplanes. FAA approved using taxiway to evacuate

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I always appreciated it because it’s probably the only time a politician specifically fucked over the ultra rich for the benefit of the general public.