After years of letting derelict cars dally, the City of St. Louis is once again turning them into cash.
What began as a COVID-era pause on booting and towing wound up lasting about three times longer than the pandemic. But the city has again started towing vehicles that were either abandoned on public streets or carry significant unpaid parking fines. And, over the past three months, those tow jobs have brought $222,000 into city coffers.
That money all comes through the city’s Streets Department, and comes mostly in addition to the $780,515 that the city’s Treasurer’s Office has brought in via outstanding parking fines and boot fees since the office again resumed booting vehicles, which KMOV’s Shoshana Stahl reported on last week…