Ridgewood parking changes aimed at opening up more spots
DECEMBER 26, 2014 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2014, 12:31 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Ridgewood’s not taking its New Year’s parking resolutions lightly.
Come Jan. 1, new changes are officially going into effect.
Every 12-hour meter in the downtown lots, with the exception of the train station lot, will be recalibrated to a three-hour time limit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The new rate for the lots will be 50 cents an hour, not 25 cents. Also, repeat parking in the same space will be even more strictly enforced than it is now (meaning, more tickets).
The goal?
To open up parking spaces for shoppers.
A special half-hour public meeting was held on Monday night to enact the final changes.
According to Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld, the official recalibration of the meters will be done around Jan. 2 and 3.
After this point, she said, all meters in downtown Ridgewood will be three-hour meters, with two exceptions: 15-minute meters and meters in the train station’s Station Plaza lot, which will remain 12-hour meters.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/changes-aimed-at-opening-up-spots-1.1181432
How does increasing the permitted time limit from 2 to 3 hours free up more spots? This is the biggest blow job of the decade.
More old tech meters…immune to quarter scalping
regarding comment from #1, the frequency of inappropriate language is increasing on this blog – it doesn’t increase the validity of an idea. I am not talking about the Mayor’s phony “civility” – I like strong opinions, but no reason to have this kind of language just because it is anonymous. I assume at a public hearing you wouldn’t use that language.
I thought for a second that you were going to respond to his question. As for adult language, I’m okay with it if it conveys the appropriate level of anger, which in his case, it did.
Here is you answer #1 If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. Fields
Recommend ALL poster comments clean up their act please.
To #4, I will respond to the question posed by #1. It is not the increase from 2 to 3 hours that is hoped/expectyed to free up more spots. The expectation is that greater enforcement of no-repeat parking and the use of new permit lots for CBD workers will increase street parking spots. The increase from 2 to 3 hours just makes it more realistic to have no repeat parking.
I wouldn’t call inappropriate language “adult language”. It tends to limit conversation, as the anger is what is most clearly presented, not the idea or question.