United Press International – NewsTrack – Scooter rider confused by parking tickets: “For some reason, Chicago police are ignoring the ‘Do not ticket me’ sign Lauren Addy has been putting on her Vespa when she parks it in a bike rack downtown.
City officials told the Chicago Sun-Times that Addy, a student at the Illinois Institute of Art, is wrong in assuming the courts will dismiss the tickets because it is illegal to park any vehicle on a sidewalk — with the exception of motorized wheelchairs or devices ‘moved solely by human power, devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks and snow mobiles.’
Addy gotten five tickets so far and plans to contest every one of them.
She told the newspaper police told her she can use the bike racks as long as her scooter has an engine smaller than 50 cubic centimeters. The Vespa comes in at 49.7 cubic centimeters.”
13. April 2007 at 5:52 pm
HA HA Chicago- I got out of ALL of the parking tickets because I contested that the Vespa was a “motorized pedalcycle” which is in fact legal to park on the sidewalk.
-Lauren Addy