Why curtail the hours when there is zero demand? I would have bought the permit if the city designated a number of spaces "Resident Parking Only".
Wouldn't it make sense for the city to have done a parking survey first? Find out how many residents park in the designated area, and reserve spaces for residents in those areas. On my block this summer that would have amounted to 3 spaces. I realize that varies from block to block, but as I've said, the current system is great for the city, but useless for residents such as myself. What's the value in paying to park when you can't find a space to use it? If I bought the permit should I get a refund on the perhaps 24 days when visitors took up all the spaces? --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@...> wrote: > > Tough one, but I am probably leaning towards relaxing in that area off season > or curtailing the hours BUT if that's done and during a concert at the Pony > there's no spaces on your block what will you say? This is my entire point > about the compatibility/incompatibility of uses. Residences near or in the > middle of uses that draw high visitor traffic have issues. You will not be > able to solve them. I do not think anyone has. > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting this. I read it yesterday. > > > > Since we're talking about parking ( I know I'm annoying with this topic), > > what do you or does anybody else feel about keeping year round until > > midnight paid parking on the 200 blocks west of Kingsley? > > > > My answer is easy. Take a drive to my block, 1st Ave between Bergh and > > Kingsley, on any day, at any time between now and Memorial Day. You will > > see what looks like an abandoned street. Absolutely ZERO demand. > > > > Does this make sense to anybody? > > > > I have a friend coming to visit Friday night to play Scrabble. She has 2 > > choices - pay $2 or $3 to park out front, or park in the dark around the > > corner, or on the 300 block. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote: > > > > > > From NYT > > > > > > Reflections on a Parking Meter By CLYDE HABERMAN > > > <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/clyde-haberman/> > > > Not to make too much of a relatively minor event, but when > > > Manhattan's last old-time parking meter was yanked down on Monday, > > > it meant the end of a symbolic target for some rebellious spirits. > > > [The Day] The Day <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-day/> > > > Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. > > > > > > To them, parking meters represent an infringement of their freedom of > > > movement. Did anyone in the Old West make a cowboy pay to tie up his > > > horse outside the saloon? Nor is this solely an American notion. In > > > Australia, the No Parking Meters Party > > > <http://noparkingmetersparty.org/> came into being a few years ago, > > > running candidates in state elections in New South Wales with a slogan > > > that "the basis of democracy is non-dictated policy." > > > > > > Writing about the final curtain > > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/nyregion/uprooting-the-old-familiar-p\ > > > arking-meter.html> for the parking meter in Manhattan, 60 years to the > > > day after the first one was installed, my colleague Michael M. Grynbaum > > > alluded on Monday to the 1967 film "Cool Hand Luke > > > <http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1738E260BC4A53DFB767\ > > > 838C679EDE> ." In its opening scene, the title character, played by > > > Paul Newman, is arrested and dispatched to a prison road gang for > > > drunkenly lopping off the heads of meters with a pipe cutter. > > > > > > Back in 1967, some people in the New York theater where I saw it > > > cheered as Luke went from meter to meter, methodically decapitating > > > each one. To them, it wasn't an act of vandalism. It was a free > > > spirit's rebellion against those in power, by attacking one of > > > their more soulless creations. > > > > > > Perhaps those same people would have pumped their fists joyfully had > > > they witnessed the uprooting of Manhattan's last single-space meter > > > from its post on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. Not that > > > meters have disappeared from the city. Hardly. Tens of thousands remain > > > in other boroughs. But they are doomed, too. In a year or so, the > > > city's Transportation Department expects multispace Muni-Meters to > > > be the rule everywhere. > > > > > > The relationship between some New Yorkers and their parking spaces can > > > run deep, even as the city becomes ever more bicycle conscious > > > perhaps especially as the city becomes more bike conscious. You > > > don't have to own a car to understand that. I haven't owned one > > > in 33 years. Yet an available parking spot right in front of my > > > apartment building is so alluring that it almost makes me want to rush > > > off to buy something to fill the space. > > > > > > Throughout Manhattan and in parts of other boroughs, the hunt for a > > > perfect spot, one where a driver may leave the car for days without > > > fear of a summons, is no less an obsession than the pursuit of the > > > white whale was for Ahab. > > > > > > Politicians certainly understand this. It helps explain why, over the > > > years, they have steadily expanded the exemptions to the alternate-side > > > parking rules, usually in the name of paying tribute to some religious > > > or ethnic group. > > > > > > The Transportation Department now recognizes 32 holidays > > > <http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/scrintro.shtml#calendar2011> > > > , with a total of 42 days, when the rules are suspended and sanitation > > > trucks are thus unable to sweep. It is one of New York's > > > peculiarities that the chosen method for honoring various > > > constituencies is to leave the streets dirty. > > > > > > With a run of Jewish, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Hindu and legal holidays > > > upon us, there will be a 44-day stretch, from Sept. 29 to Nov. 11, > > > during which alternate-side parking regulations will be lifted > > > one-third of the time. > > > > > > For me, the rebel's romantic concept of parking meters as an enemy > > > no longer holds, if it ever did. An opposite thought is more dominant: > > > Why is public space, a most precious commodity in this city, allowed to > > > be used as a private storage area? > > > > > > Years ago, I asked in a column if it would be all right for a New > > > Yorker in a crowded apartment to put a chest of drawers on wheels and > > > leave it at curbside > > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/nyregion/nyc-alternate-side-of-realit\ > > > y-parking-rules.html> observing all parking rules and taking a > > > chance on theft. The very idea was, of course, absurd; you can't > > > store personal property on the street. > > > > > > Why, then, is it O.K. to do that when the wheeled property is called a > > > car? > > > > > > If public space is to be used for this private purpose, perhaps what > > > the city needs to do is greatly expand the areas where people must pay > > > for the privilege. > > > > > > Not that this could be done without fierce resistance from some on the > > > City Council and in the State Legislature. Generally speaking, when it > > > comes to the proper place of the automobile in this crowded city, what > > > we have, as Cool Hand Luke found out in his own way, is a failure to > > > communicate. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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