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submitted 11 months ago by Voyajer@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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

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[-] intelati@programming.dev 4 points 11 months 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 2 points 11 months 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.

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