Just rec’d an email with convoluted parking instructions for various locations throughout town; spaces marked by special symbols for various uses – shoppers, commuters, employees…. Do they really expect us to remember all of these rules and symbols? I’m sure it looks like a perfect solution for the bureaucrat that designed it but to us regular folks it’s ridiculous and too complicated to be effective. We should have built the garage and voters only have themselves to blame. I went into town the other night at 4:30 for the first time probably all year, had to drive around half a dozen times to find a parking space, traffic was backed up, cars double parked, it was a mess. It will be another year before I return.
No municipal parking lot should be reserved exclusively for meters from which a private company is making a huge profit. I will not be coerced into doing this. Shut me out from parking and you can imagine whether I’ll ever return.
Another reason to avoid the downtown.it is very congested. A garage will not eliminate congestion. The town is really a city.
If I go to the downtown it is for dinner in the evening. Never at GTM , Fish or PWT.
THIS a Thousand Times Over:
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“No municipal parking lot should be reserved exclusively for meters from which a private company is making a huge profit. I will not be coerced into doing this. Shut me out from parking and you can imagine whether I’ll ever return.”
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I’ll never park there.
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A garage would eliminate congestion which is about to get much worse now that the law suits on the building sites are about to get resolved. When those lots are no longer available…look out. This is what happens when people refuse to allow modernization in a town that was built for street cars and horses.
The town was also built before high density housing.
I never park there either. I buy my food at Stop & Shop then walk to a CBD store. Crisis solved. And I get some decent exercise.