For several months I’ve been reporting on the travails of parking operations in the City of St. Louis under Treasurer Layne—from millions of dollars in uncollected parking fees to abandoned cars lingering on city streets for months to Layne forgiving his own parking tickets and gifting a girlfriend with a parking hang tag.
But throughout all that reporting, there’s one question that I haven’t been able to answer—that no one seems able to answer—and that I can’t get out of my head.
Why are there so many long-abandoned cars in the city-owned parking garage at Seventh and Pine?…