January 10,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, An overabundance of open parking for shoppers/diners and for CBD Employees on Monday mid-morning and again on Monday mid-afternoon in Prospect, Hudson, N. Walnut, Cottage, and Chestnut lots.
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We do not need a garage. Not now. Not ever. No garage. Got it? Get it.
Ok – I’ll try to post again.
If there are soooo many spots and there is no need for parking, then why are commuter parking spots being slashed and permit prices being raised to insane levels to ‘modulate demand’?
What sort of alternate reality is this? There is too much parking and we don’t need a garage, but we need to make sure no commuter uses up the plentiful parking spots so we will price gouge till they go away to some other town?
I have and always will be against any garage regardless of whining of Rurik’s “army”. What I don’t understand is why give so much parking availability to CBD employees and SHOPPERS. After all these shoppers are the same communters who need parking to get to work and make money during the week so that they can shop during evenings or weekends. There has to be a solution , a easy one but which for some reason is proving to be so challenging to VC. We don’t need PHD-s to solve this.
Good points 12:33. The only missing link is that the most vocal entrenched
Restaurant owners seem to blame the taxpayers Garage haters) for missing out on some second or third shift/table turnovers from the missing customers I their fantasy business plans.Frankly it’s not our problem and have borne too much crap on the average citizens take home pay to try to solve a business owners problem.Have incredible food and service.like I other successful towns people will have a drink or pre-event while they wait the text that your table is ready,
nogaragenogaragenogarage. Keep in mind that developers intended and intend to use nearby available parking as a way to create less parking for their desired apartment houses. This was surely a major impetus for Aronsohn & friends’ bizarre push for that thing.
Rurik does not have an army. He has maybe five loser friends. That’s it
The Council is trying to provide parking, though I’m not sure their new parking costs are justified. What happened to the idea of creating one way streets and diagonal parking? That seemed to provide a reasonable number of new spots where they were needed the most.
The other factor is that people who supported “a” garage did not support Garagezilla, and that is what we feared we would get if we voted “Yes” on the later vote. I may be crazy, but my impression is that most of us wanted “a” garage of a reasonable size and cost. And none of our new Council members ran on a “no” garage platform. They too seemed positive to the idea of a reasonable one.
News flash..the Locals are the steady eddies who find parking wherever
street ,stop and shop,Kings for milk and eggs etc a quick hop to rite aid or book or retail store then back to the car with your purchases..that’s called a turn on an asset.letting another take that spot for their needs.
The restaurant owners seem to think peak period evening Friday Saturday
Overcapacity build out for their business plans is a good thing.Its not and
Off peak your have a wrecked town of excess commuters from other city’s
Racing down Ridgewood avenue to get on route 17 north and home to their local shopping niches.Amazon and Peapod bring most of the paper goods and Hhchemicals .