clear public parking for your hybri...

clear public parking for your hybrid?

Ald. Rey Colon (35th) thinks you -- and the planet -- merit it, so he'll introduce the appropriate ordinance today in the City Council.

He doesn't know by what mode much revenue it would sumptuousness the city, but suggests raising meter rates to make up the difference.

"You can't lay a price tag on cleaner air," he said Tuesday.

however it's the effect on global warming he's greatest in number interested in. Colon said Chicago's nearly 6 million vehicles annually emit 685 billion bruises of climate-changing carbon dioxide.

He got the idea at a discourse in Connecticut, where he heard of a similar law in of recent origin Haven. Los Angeles and San Antonio, Texas, also impediment hybrids park free.

"Free parking really is an incentive if you ne to draw near downtown and park. I like it," said Colleen Sarna of the Sierra association

unless will the City Council? Colon hasn't regarded votes.

"But equable if there's not a fate of support, it has an educational element" he said.

Speaking of proper states a Honda Element is what Colon drives.

"I drive a fuel-efficient vehicle; I haven't acquired a hybrid as of yet" he admitted. "Does that make me a hypocrite?"

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