Village has options other than a parking garage
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Village has options other than a parking garage
Boyd Loving
To the editor:
Re: “Parking partnership moves ahead,” The Ridgewood News, Feb. 28, page A1.
Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn routinely boasts that he’s “passionate” about improving parking in Ridgewood. In my opinion, the facts say otherwise.
For example:
* “Coins only” meters are in still place on streets throughout the village’s Central Business District (CBD); there are no street located multi-space pay stations offering alternative payment options that generate higher revenue streams along with virtually eliminating the possibility of “shrinkage,”
* A single, repeatedly malfunctioning, cash only, multi-space pay station that has frustrated users, and resulted in massive revenue losses for years, remains in place at the Chestnut Street lot.
* A Village Council-backed proposal to install a single, multi-space, cash only pay station at the very large Route 17 Park & Ride – sure to cause long lines at peak commuting times and continue Ridgewood’s tradition of “cash only, please” (despite the risk of continued “shrinkage”).
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These are great ideas. But our council does not listen to ideas that make sense.
Amen!
to # 1 they don’t care about u. look at all the cars parking at ken smith lot.