….the fly has noticed that with every new suggestion for parking changes there is a concerted push to undermine the Mayors efforts .Who could believe that here in “turf town” that people suddenly are concerned with an empty strip of grass at the Ridgewood Train Station. Mind you years of neglect didn’t seem to make an impact. Every new suggestion is attacked by the same group that brought you “Garagezilla” an ill fitting monstrosity with its sole purpose was creating taxpayer funded parking so private developers didn’t have to. Recent events on Bogart and Cambridge suggest a further attempt to undermine the Village council efforts ,with engineering over reach and a failure to communicate. The Financial Advisory Committee’s recent debacle with their “alternative facts “garage report gave away the game proving unequivocally that the FAC is behind attempts to undermine Mayor Susan Knudsen as they were with previous Mayor Kieth Killion.
The green island by the train station is a safety issue. I wouldn’t walk to the Farmer’s Market on that dangerous crowded parking lot without that island. Would parents with strollers?
But don’t worry. I will forgo the Farmer’s Market this year for corporate farmed food from the supermarkets, shipped here from all over the U.S. and the world. But please do not prevent other countries and other parts of U.S. from turning their farms into much needed concrete developments: like malls, office complexes, large parking lots etc. The New Jersey farms are disappearing fast. Soon they will be gone, turned into concrete. When all the farms are gone all over the world and turned into concrete, never worry, some genius like Bill Gates will figure out a way to grow or make food without farms. Is that right? So let us turn every strip of greenery into concrete.
Never mind that that strip of greenery by the train station is also mood lifting and cheerful and yes, beautiful. Yes, the original designers of that island knew what they were doing.
But those subjective happy feelings when walking through that island don’t count at all. If I or others want cheerful happy feelings when walking through greenery they can be obtained through better means, like alcohol, drugs like heroin ,excessive eating of fatty foods. Drinking sugary sodas. That is a better, cheaper, way of obtaining happy feelings.
So what if health care costs sky rocket. The super rich folks like you guys have plenty of money to pay for your own health care. And who cares about anybody else.
Dead rats; dead cats; you think you’re an aristocrat, well that’s crap.
Garage is a nonstarter and Financial Advisory Committee must be disbanded as soon as possible.
Time to get the FAC a seat at the kid’s table.
No push back Fly. Even this this Mayor can have some dumb ideas. She doesn’t walk on water.
the suggestion was not to remove the strip of grass completely, it was to narrow it enough to fit another row of cars in the lot, which that lot desperately needs during commuting hours. It will be up to the engineering department to decide if there would be sufficient space for another row of cars, and still have enough space for a narrower island for safety as well as it being aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
“There is a concerted push to undermine the Mayors efforts ” So let me try to understand this Fly. If residents disagree with the Mayor about her suggestion for more parking space at the train station and post on Ridgewood Blog then we are undermining her? WOW, where have I heard this. Sounds like a page from the 3 Amigos playbook. Whats next start up the Civility meeting again.
Come at 6 to 7
Even with only one row facing the street backing up right into the cars lined up to exit against a stop sign and a bunch of other card turning into that same queu
Of about 20 cars and a light with competing left turners heading under the same overpass..throw In pedestrian crosswalk with a Gillian’s island safety island amidst all this chaos ..we need another row of cars backing up or exiting like a hole in the head..add I bicyclists..exiting same time and cars picking up.commuter all over the station..it’s a safety issue today ..get the picture ?
Bogart/Cambridge is less a council issue. The council were fooled on how the original ordinance was implemented. The Village Engineer decided it was easier to just to have no parking 500 feet down each street which he admitted to at the council meeting. Regardless of who did what, the majority of the neighbors on the blocks affected we’re never informed of what was going on. Communication was abysmal, that should be a council issue moving forward. Kudos to the Mayor for suggesting a new form and process be followed, but the people affected by these decisions should also have input into the decision making process. Aren’t they supposedly working for ALL of the people in the village.
Carving into that median island at the train station will never happen..
It’s a canard…VC floundering …sky is falling..we can think big picture too,
KEEP TRYING..just don’t build that garage ..would be the end of the village as we know it..
NJ TRANSIT and our Insurers might have some negative input into intentionally creating a higher hazard level by minimizing any pedestrian walkway or waiting or loading or unloading zones.It is tight and dangerous as it is currently configured.Litigation attorneys would have a field day for loss or injury lawsuit against the village who by possibly trading a larger existing safer median safety area in exchange for 20 to 25 more spots at the highest financial gain to VOR rates in the whole town parking rate schedule.Connect the dots people.
Follow the money. Where did the extra $250 per space for commuter parking go after the Council jacked up the annual pass rate to $1000, and then moved us further from the station? Makes my 2.5 hour daily commute so much more enjoyable… why free parking on Cottage Place?