“All of this is driven by the ever increasing need for more and more fees to feed the out of control spending“
Another factor is supply and demand. As more people apply for parking permits, price has to rise. It would be against basic rules of market economy to do otherwise. We may not like it, but what’s the alternative?
With all honesty, the train is still the best way to get to the city. For the most part it’s punctual, there are always seats and it’s comfy. Where else can you get a better option? Summit/Millburn have an easier way to get to Penn St direct, but many Ridgewood commuters go to Hoboken stop instead.
Ridgewood is a beautiful, welcoming village. And hey, if the parking is too pricey, why not ride a bicycle during warner season (free) and Uber/Lyft when it’s cooler (~$7 one way)?
“With all honesty” When someone says “With all honesty” they are a damn liar. Gettin to the city during rush hour on train is hell. You CANNOT EVER get a seat in Secaucus goin to city. Train gets delayed in middle of track, up to 15 minutes; you stand there packed like a sardine in a dark tunnel waitin and PRAYING to get to Penn. And then the crush tryin to walk up stairs. MANY COMMUTERS GO TO PENN, liar. Why do leave Penn commuters out.
You take Park & Ride bus or Van Neste Square bus which is much better. But if you work in lower part of city bus may not be efficient for you.
Park & Ride Shortline bus to city is at least one half hour perhaps an hour faster to city than train. Remember you have to get off and switch in Secaucus, which is a pain in the ass. And oh those Delays. They will never in your lifetime, maybe never, build that tunnel to NYC , the Gateway. The developers who were saying the Gateway tunnel will make Ridgewood oh so desirable. It won’t happen. Council members were partially justifying the parking garage on basis of GATEWAY TUNNEL.
Owning cars is supposed to be obsolete in about 10 years, vision Ridgewood, stupid council members.
Once the buildings are up in Ridgewood expect all trains to arrive fully loaded in Glen Rock. Unless of course majority of new digs go to low income/section 8 families who don’t need to work anyway. Enjoy the new RW. So much more sh!t to come.
To claim that Ridgewood has a bad commute relative to other nice / safe / high quality of life suburban towns around NYC is simply not true. I have been commuting since 1986. When I commuted from Hoboken / Manhattan it was shorter but who wants to raise a family in Hoboken or Manhattan? And who can afford a neighborhood you would raise children in Manhattan other than Russian oligarchs and billionaires? The Ridgewood train is served by Main and Bergen lines making it uniquely more convenient than other train lines. Prior to the midtown connection some opted for the bus to PA so that new connection is yet another option making Ridgewood better than most other NYC commuter suburbs. I would be curious to what town(s) have such excellent train/bus service to NYC that it is cheaper and better than Ridgewood? Certainly not the LIRR or Metro North to Connecticut. I suppose Greenwich CT is OK but not noticeably better than Ridgewood and they have to switch to the 4-5-6 to get downtown so really that whole train service is heavily preferenced to midtown. Garden City LI for example is OK too I suppose but they have no choice but one line into Penn and then subway downtown which I guess is not as bad as coming down from Grand Central. At least we have about the same convenience to both midtown and downtown. And please tell me the suburban town that is so much cheaper and nicer with a fast convenient commute and high quality of life? Not near NYC, that is for sure. This is just another one of these things that the town-complainer posts stupid uninformed comments about in his or her eternal dislike of Ridgewood. I wish I had a dollar for every time this same person leaves a comment saying they are moving out. I think they do it 10 or 20 times a week.
It’s nice to see posters like Bill who realize that the “quaint village” has a lot going for it, anonymous losers and self important blowhards aside.
Hahah, PE Smith praises Bill, but then again Bill says he’s sick of people threatening to move out of town. Paul Smith himself moved out of town. What a two-face. Calling everyone else losers, blowhards, and at one point calling everyone in ridgewood too white. Glad to be riddaya.
Ridgewood NJT riders will get GLEN Rocked Right out of your cozy morning NJTRAIN SEAT once the developers north of here:
crow bar their way around the rules for MORE local
multi family developed Apartments ..so what goes around sure to come
around in the near future ..ALL BAD..expect to pay more for NJT as well,