Dealer Selling Cars from Bike Lane!!!

I was heading south on Elston this morning and a car dealer had three cars for sale parked in the bike line. The dealer is just north of Hamlin.  I yelled "This is a bike lane"  to what might have been a sales person and gestured to the lane, but I didn't have time to take a picture. Hopefully they moved the cars.  If not someone should take a picture.  I will check it out on my way home.

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Permalink Reply by Michael J Blane on August 13, 2012 at 6:27am

Not sure it'll help but here's Google Maps for the Elston and Hamlin area.

Permalink Reply by Omar Lopez on August 13, 2012 at 6:34am

  Agree!

h' said:

If you can come up with an address we can get some collective action going here to get this solved quickly.

Permalink Reply by April on August 13, 2012 at 7:04am

It might have been around 4254 North Elston. I looked on the Google Map, but it shows a auto repair not car dealership.   I was going pretty fast because I was late for work.   I took note of Hamlin, the first intersection I came to after I passed it.  I am sure it was dealership because all the cars in the bike lane had price tags in their windshield.  (I was checking for drivers since I was in the door zone).  Sorry guys, I should have noted the name of the dealership. 

Permalink Reply by Logan on August 13, 2012 at 11:12am

It is illegal to have cars for sale in the public way including having signage/phone numbers/prices dealer or not this does not matter. Ticketable offense, call 311 and report it. Some jokers had two cars for sale in front on my apartment building and the meter maid got them last week.

"Parking a Vehicle for the Sole Purpose of Displaying the Vehicle for Sale"

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/fin/supp_info/revenue/ti...

Permalink Reply by April on August 13, 2012 at 11:21am

Good to know!  I will call 311 if I see it again.  Funny that parking in bike lane wasn't on that list you linked to....I thought that was illegal as well

Permalink Reply by Logan on August 13, 2012 at 1:15pm

911 is not meant for "Non-Emergency" calls

Unless the parked car for sale hit you, they will likely transfer your 911 call to 311 a ticket violation is likely considered a "Non-Emergency".

"A non-emergency incident is one that does not involve a crime in progress; does not pose an imminent threat to life, bodily injury or major property damage or loss; and does not require the immediate dispatch of a police unit.  

Non-emergencies include crimes such as pickpocketing, theft from an automobile, deceptive practices, criminal damage to property, garage burglary, auto theft and other offenses in which the offender is no longer at the scene."

https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/Get%2...

 

"Speak directly to desk personnel at your police district station. This option is useful for passing along information to or trying to contact your beat officers or other district personnel. "

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on August 13, 2012 at 1:32pm

Actually anything that requires the police, emergency or not, is routed through 911.  If you call 311 to have a car ticketed they put you through to 911.

Logan said:

911 is not meant for "Non-Emergency" calls

Unless the parked car for sale hit you, they will likely transfer your 911 call to 311 a ticket violation is likely considered a "Non-Emergency".

"A non-emergency incident is one that does not involve a crime in progress; does not pose an imminent threat to life, bodily injury or major property damage or loss; and does not require the immediate dispatch of a police unit.  

Non-emergencies include crimes such as pickpocketing, theft from an automobile, deceptive practices, criminal damage to property, garage burglary, auto theft and other offenses in which the offender is no longer at the scene."

https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/Get%2...

 

"Speak directly to desk personnel at your police district station. This option is useful for passing along information to or trying to contact your beat officers or other district personnel. "

Permalink Reply by Joe Willis on August 13, 2012 at 1:34pm

If it is illegally parked them it would fall right about here "crime in progress" and "which the offender is no longer at the scene". If the car is still parked there? So I can see it as a 911 call.

Permalink Reply by Logan on August 13, 2012 at 3:32pm

h'

Get the location and the business name. Ride your bike up there during business hours and call 911. Let us know how that goes, I am sure Garry McCarthy himself will show up.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-25/news/ct-met-mccarthy-...

"Some of the calls would be reassigned to the 311 system of nonemergency calls, and some would be deemed not worthy of even that response, he said."

 

"Reducing the kinds of calls police have to answer in person affects officers' workloads in safe neighborhoods as well as high-crime areas, Shane said. And in areas with low crime, eliminated categories of 911 calls may make up a higher percentage of the workload than in places riddled with shootings and drug dealing."

Permalink Reply by Logan on August 13, 2012 at 3:51pm

You have no proof your call would be considered an "Emergency". No fight to pick with you h' , call 911 and see what they say, I have... better call your local police district and see what they say, I called mine

17th District - Albany Park
4461 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60630
(312) 742-4410  

https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/Commu...

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