April 26,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, from the “take back Ridgewood ” Facebook group ,Glen Rock is removing ‘non resident parking’ from the train station and moving non residents a block away. In Ridgewood, our Mayor and his team want to add more non resident commuter parking near the train station for political gains. We need to be informed and vote against his team on May 10th. We can’t afford 4 more years of this.
Glen Rock’s Borough Hall station parking lot to be designated for local commuters beginning May 1
BY RICHARD DE SANTA
STAFF WRITER |
GLEN ROCK GAZETTE
Three candidates – supported by politicians and high density developers and Valley -> Brooks, Willet and Weitz.
Three candidates – supported and endorsed by ALL resident groups (who care about the town) -> Jeff Voigt, Bernie Walsh, and Ramon Hache
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The choice is clear.
NOTE: In Glen Rock ” . . . the consultant recommended that the borough first consider ways to manage or improve existing capacity short term, while assessing the major step of building a parking garage in greater detail.”
While in Ridgewood, NOTHING, I REPEAT, NOTHING has been done to improve capacity short term. Aronsohn and his cronies jumped right into building an expensive monstrosity.
The ONLY people really benefiting from this garage are the restaurant owners on the West side of town, and that’s two days a week. So a 400 space garage on Hudson St., rather than a deck there and another across from the Post Office, is a better way to go ? This town better hope we don’t get into another round of Wall St. layoffs.
Bill H.
I can’t believe it but I actually agree with your post. If I’m nit picking, I’d change “two days a week” to three but otherwise spot on!
Bill H – on those two nights – Paul and Roberta want to make the garage FREE.
god NO!!. Another round of wall street layoffs will bring another Roberta to Ridgewood Municipal Government Bill H.
Roberta is a political hack nothing to do with wall street
Bill H – businesses on the west side of the tracks DO NOT SUPPORT THE GARAGE. Go into these businesses an and ask them. The Chamber is not interested in whatever it is the west side of the tracks business have to say about the garage. They have been told to keep quiet.
10:40am interesting. What about businesses around/near north walnut lot, where there is a lot of available parking?
The sell-out of our downtown is all about providing Paul Vagimous and Saracena with a steady supply of eaters for Fish and its Greek to me. If you are against over-development downtown, consider avoiding these venues to send a message.
11:59 am, if they cheat the election that’s what I am going to spend my time on. Movement to boycott restaurants owned by these two.
Bill H is right on the money, a parking deck in the two locations managed is all the village needs. As for out of town commuters let them park a few blocks away residents should have priority.
Will be a slum maker and a death blow to those small cafes operating profitably today right in the new shadow of evil district.People live there today.moving trucks will open up new opportunities for apartments full of kids hammering our school budgets .go to New Haven.or Patterson,,..see what those garages do to a neighborhood..they are all Filthy and crime ridden..
11:40 – I can’t answer that as I have only spoken with a few of the business owners down on Godwin. They would have like to have seen the Village purchase the gas station and put some.parking in there. Instead? We got another bank!
In fact, the Godwin businesses think the garage will hurt them because people who might otherwise have walked to and from the train station, will drive to the new garage. It may reduce pedestrian traffic on Godwin. They are not happy about it.
I wouldn’t patronize either restaurant if they were the only ones in town. Disgusted.
Think of that huge former Bank of America now fish backed up by Garage Zilla. Forget about any light or Air in that cafe district. Located in the highest ground area on the commercial side of town. Views from the train will be like arriving in Patterson looking at the massive st joes hospital,
The garage is all about high density housing, not restaurants. Without it, the over development of Ridgewood cannot happen. Without over development the property owners, who paid a lot for the land, cannot make money. They need to develop the lots past what parking on the property supports to maximize rental revenue. They are playing the long game to draw families here to multi bedroom rentals with our schools as the magnetic force. It is very simple. Problem is, our schools are over capacity and our high school is well past capacity. So, how will our schools stay at the top? They can’t. That doesn’t concern the developer, he’ll have sold by then. It will be someone else’s problem. It is simple and undeniably true. They lie about Brogan and Ken Smith parking spaces needing to be replaced, spots that are not a part of the public parking inventory. “Smiling faces with hidden agendas”. The garage is the Trojan Horse. The village now admits, we don’t need more parking, we don’t even utilize what we have. Higher density, higher congestion, higher fees. They want a city.
1238 – – why wait? No time like the present.
Glen Rock has better schools, too
8.14 is right..nothing has been done to improve existing surface parking lot stocks,Potholes on cottage place lot and lack of updated fresh yellow stall lines identifying valid spaces…we even crucify any visitors if they park over a line on the street or don’t make it easy for the parking police to do their
Jobs of raising more revenue by ticketing visitors who don’t park nose in.
Short term revenue gains with lack of any foresight on how we chase visitors away from Ridgewoods existing parking capacity,Most unfriendly place to shop or visit in Bergen County, Glen Rock has us beat by a mile
Glen Rock has higher taxes
Of course Ridgewood wants the non-resident folks parking in Paul’s Garage…it won’t pay for itself…
My wife and I are from Bergen County, currently live outside of the Raleigh, NC metro. Amtrak has several stations, notably Raleigh and Cary. The Raleigh station is an inner-city abomination, while Cary is probably ranked #1 in the nation. It’s all about great planning and paying attention to your local goals and needs. I’m finding your blogs very interesting.
GB, Clayton, NC