parking

V.I.P. Parking
V.I.P. Parking
V.I.P. Parking
Metra has decide to make the entire lower parking lot V.I P. parking during the Garth Brooks concerts.  Now, unless all other traffic in the other parking lots is stopped and that lot let out first, this is just now making parking a paid service...
New Post Concert Traffic Procedures
New Post Concert Traffic Procedures
New Post Concert Traffic Procedures
It's been a long week. I'm tired, but Carrie Underwood's show was on a Thursday night and our 8 year old wanted to go so we bought tickets and went. Great show. She can really sing. The show wraps up at 10:30 and we head to our vehicle...
Big Brother Is Watching And Listening In Billings Elevators
Big Brother Is Watching And Listening In Billings Elevators
Big Brother Is Watching And Listening In Billings Elevators
I work downtown in the Crowne Plaza and, like most employees, I must park in the city parking garage on First Avenue. There have definitely been occasions (at least three) when I have encountered some weirdness in the garage's elevator. I have seen a presumably homeless man sleeping, a young drunk hipster passed out and a couple engaged in romantic activity on the floor...
Missing: My Car at MontanaFair
Missing: My Car at MontanaFair
Missing: My Car at MontanaFair
The Metra is a great facility, so don't take this as a complaint so much as a note in the suggestion box. I took the kid out to MontanaFair on Saturday night and had to park in the upper lot above the arena. I didn't mind the walk considering I've been to lots of fairs with much less to offer where you drop 10 bucks to park in a field somewhere...