Mark Krulish , Staff Writer, @Mark_Krulish6:45 p.m. ET March 30, 2017
RIDGEWOOD — After months of discussion and comments from the public regarding two ordinances that restricted parking on certain residential streets, the Village Council will have ordinances prepared at next month’s public meeting to ease some of those limitations.
One ordinance, adopted in June, banned parking on Pomander Walk from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. . Another disallowed parking from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., from Sept. 1 through June 30, on Bogert Avenue and Cambridge Road 500 feet from their intersections with East Glen Avenue. Those were passed in December and took effect in January. In both cases, safety concerns for pedestrians and residents in the area were the main driver of the changes.
Why must the parking issue on Bogert and Cambridge be presented as a binary one – you are either for safety or for parking? I completely agree the intersections off Glen and onto the two streets are a problem and I also believe there should be some safety measures put in place but I also believe there are other ways of addressing this challenge other than banning parking. What a miserable situation this has become for many of the people on these two streets.
You’re right, 9:33. Many, many homeowners on Bogert and Cambridge have had a restriction placed on their lives that increases roadway safety not one little bit for anybody. This is statist tyranny (admittedly on a very small scale). At least one person relatively high up in municipal government must be smiling, pleased with this robbery, and the anguish it is causing, or it would never have happened. And this is the real shame…that the residents of Ridgewood appear to be paying a salary and generous benefits to a stone cold sadist. At least one, anyway. Actually, probably just one at this point in our post-Aronsohn history. Hmmm…who might it be?
For Pomander the no parking ordinance was because the Pomander residents asked for it – there was no safety study to back up any claims. They pushed their parking problems off to the surrounding streets which then has more people crossing Godwin Avenue. We have had many pedestrians hit on Godwin and this just makes the situation worse. I hope the Council sees that making Pomander no parking goes against all logic. Make Pomander 1 side of the street parking like Washington, parts of Sherman, and Garfield.
Before making such drastic parking changes alert the area residents to start a dialog. Pushing parking problems onto others hurts our entire community. Let your Council know what you think.
Traffic and parking problems have taken over and are literally causing loss of life. Let’s ban cars like Disneyland. We could all use more exercise.
Pomander did not push their parking problem out. It is the town parking overflowing onto residential streets.
It was shoppers and commuters using Pomander. That is a downtown problem.
If there is a parking problem and it is a “downtown problem” as 7:17 stated then why the hell has the new Village Council done nothing to solve the fundamental problem by undertaking to build a parking garage ? In the absence of same the overflow of commuters and others will continue to crowd streets in the nearby residential areas of town.
Note all the speeding cars on Bogert from the picture in the Record.
Pomander =hooray for me, to hell with you… as well as the privileged residents of Clinton… kind of like an Orwellian some people are more equal than others way of things…
Might as well put sidewalks on Clinton so the road can be open to traffic.
These people are not special and do not deserve a private road, which diverts traffic to other streets.
Note, if I wanted to frequent the restaurants on the west side of town near pomander, I would not park at a garage on Hudson street. Really, residents of pomander, you bought a house next to a strip mall, with limited parking….
People who buy houses near businesses and then expect the town to ordinance those businesses to death are no friends to tax payers. Who do you think helps pay for this great town? Businesses! Remove all parking and we all suffer for your quiet street Pomander. The entire town needs more parking and all streets must be part of the solution. Selfish Pomander. That is how I think of that street now.