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Parking in Ridgewood

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April 13,2017

by  john doe

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Ideas to improve parking in Ridgewood

1.  People are lazy and don\’t want to walk
2.  Make it costly for those who are lazy
3.  Start meters at 8am which means employees will have to move their cars more often
4.  Lower meter time on Ridgewood ave to 2 hours.  Plenty of time to run in and out of any store
5.  Change meters on north side of all side streets in core area to 2 hours to have shopper parking available
6.  Keep meters on south side of all side streets to 3 hours
7.  Hire additional staff for parking enforcement
8.  Assign one cop to daily meter duty
9.  Reduce size of each park mobile zone to avoid repeat parking enforcement
10.  Increase fines for repeat parking: 1-3 tickets  $25.00     4-6  $50.00  7-10  $100.00  11-15  $200.00  16+ $400.00
11.  Use technology – equip one police car with license plate readers to enforce repeat parking – this way meter people would only deal with overtime parking
12.  Make those employees who repeat park pay.

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the Fly …always a buzz about parking in Ridgewood

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….the fly has noticed that with every new suggestion for parking changes there is a concerted push to undermine the Mayors efforts .Who could believe that here in “turf town” that people suddenly are concerned with an empty strip of grass at the Ridgewood Train Station. Mind you years of neglect didn’t seem to make an impact. Every new suggestion is attacked by the same group that brought you “Garagezilla” an ill fitting monstrosity with its sole purpose was creating taxpayer funded parking so private developers didn’t have to. Recent events on Bogart and Cambridge suggest  a further attempt to undermine the Village council efforts ,with engineering over reach and a failure to communicate. The Financial Advisory Committee’s recent debacle  with their “alternative facts “garage report gave away the game proving unequivocally that the FAC is behind attempts to undermine Mayor Susan Knudsen as they were with previous Mayor Kieth Killion.