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Reader is tired of the lame excuses for photos showing plenty of parking

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I am tired of these lame excuses. If you say you saw plenty of parking on any certain day, the garagaholics like you come back with any of the following:

. it was raining
. it was a holiday and people were out of town
. it was a holiday and people were busy with family
. it was a Monday and some restaurants are closed on Mondays
. it was too early in the day to get a fair estimate
. it was too late in the day and people had already gone home
. it was a Saturday noon and no one goes out until later
. it was a Saturday night and people were using UBER
. it was not raining so people were walking to town
. it was snowing so people were home shoveling
. it was snowing but then it stopped so people went skiing

Get it? There are ALWAYS available spots in town, in spite of Jeff Voigt’s declaration that there are 1000 cars looking for parking on the weekends. There are ALWAYS spots, regardless of whatever excuse you come up with.

13 thoughts on “Reader is tired of the lame excuses for photos showing plenty of parking

  1. The village needs additional parking for commuters. Period. Please stop with the notion that restaurants and shops need additional parking – this is a myth propagated by the apartment developers. Build a 2 story garage and charge a lower rate for in town commuters and $5,000 per year for out of town commuters. To ensure that no apartment dwellers park there, enforce a no parking ordinance between 2:00 am and 5:00 am. Developers will bail immediately.

  2. 1119…. yes we are a commuter town and need more commuter parking for residents and non residents. In terms of housing its gonna happen with or without the garage. Then the parking will be impossible and require revisiting a garage at higher cost.

  3. People they’re going to build this garage no matter what if, in the end with the tax payers will pay a portion of it and the rest will come from who knows where. It’s not about retail retail is dying 40% of people doing their shopping online. This is about parking for housing and the rest will be for commuters and they will make money. But they should do is build a second floor parking deck at the park-and-ride on route 17 that will make big money, that place is packed now can you imagine a second deck it would be loaded, we have an engineering department had a sketch up some kind of plan for a second deck they got Have time to do that.

  4. We do NOT need a garage and we can’t afford one.

  5. 123…. in hindsight the best solution would have been a parking garage for commuters on the ken smith property and a deck on the rt 17 park n ride. #1 is too late. #2 you never know.

  6. not about to pay more taxes for things i do not leverage or use any longer including out of towners who want to commute. this is not a park and ride.

  7. 1:23, YES. It wouldn’t resolve downtown issues but is needed anyway. True that it would be empty on weekends. But I am tired of worrying that I will not find a parking space there on a weekday after 6 or 7 AM. It should not be so difficult to go into the city from a so-called commuter suburb.

  8. Good luck with that 429

  9. I do wish that the council would have listened to the majority of residents that don’t want a garage now, even if they had wanted one in that long ago election. The builders of the apartment buildings absolutely have to have one as they are not supplying near enough parking with their construction. Some commuters will use it but only if current commuter parking is forbidden to them. Unfortunately, we no longer have tons of new car dealers waiting eagerly to lease the third floor for their car storage–as is still being done in the Mahwah garage to nowhere. No one on the council will give us any idea of need except to say “years ago, people wanted it and we don’t give a hoot what the current residents want.”

  10. They should build a parking garage with a hotel/catering hall ,

  11. then the law sir is an ass..this VC has gone rouge on our taxpayer backs for the loss.towns in the crapper..

  12. Agree with 9:49 plus we should be all over getting a sports book in town once legalized in New Jersey

  13. 949
    visit Morristown NJ Parkings mostly in ground connected to a medium sized hotel in front ..ie Fish old Bank america site on RIDGEWOOD Ave.

    This might not be possible due to site size and approach streets are too narrow. Has anyone thought what it would be like when massive oversized
    precast garage structure sections are specialty riggers trucked into the village
    mainly from the route 17 side due clearances. Traffic Nitemares and huge cranes on streets for months.

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