We are repeating history. Having the meters in service later into the evening did not work before and would not work now. As has been pointed out over and over, restaurant owners themselves–and whom else are we supposedly doing all this for?–said that customers were complaining. The end time of the meters once again dropped to 6 PM, where it should stay. (This applies also to the Short Line lot on Route 17, where parking to go into the city for the day costs enough already, and a 12-hour meter limit might not even be long enough to cover someone going for the day and evening.) Raising parking meter fees and increasing hours would just make people go elsewhere. Thus the claimed parking shortage might be mitigated by having nobody wish to go downtown. If that’s the goal, we seem to be heading for it.
For God’s sake, stop messing with the meters. They are supposed to have only two purposes:
1. To prevent the NYC commuters from jamming up all the parking spaces. This is why they are not meant to run beyond 6pm.
2. To create a circulating effect whereby cars are only allowed a maximum set time to shop/eat. This is why they they are meant to have a max of 3 hours.
Nothing else.
I like with the other post send free parking from Thanksgiving to January 1 very smart thinking. I believe I seen. Towns do that
If you allow free parking during the holiday period, then what’s to stop all-day commuters from taking up the spaces?
Why is the parking in the village such a pain in the ass.Why can’t the committee come up with something that works for everyone
And to prevent employees from taking up the customer spaces…
A chalk stick and strict enforcement of a 3 hour limit would free up 100 spaces every day