All I'd like to see is one simple thing. Suspend paid parking on the 200 blocks between Labor Day and Memorial Day. I can live with the issues during the summer. But being asked to pay to park on an empty residential block is absolutely absurd.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@...> wrote: > > My point, reserve spaces on your block so when there is the demand present > that leaves you with no spaces, those excess cars (visitors) go go to the > next block perhaps. That causes residents on that block not to be able to > park (the number displaced by the excess cars) and now they have the same > complaints, so we do the same there, and so forth and so on. > > It is only going to get wore unless the whole thing fails. 1.5 cars off > street parking requirement per new unit in the waterfront area. Can you > imagine the implications if even 25% of it gets built? Who has 1.5 cars? No > guests? You think the folks in Ocean Grove have complaints about parking in > the summer? > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote: > > > > > > Why not reserve spaces for residents only on my block? > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote: > > > > > > 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! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: asburypark-dig...@yahoogroups.com asburypark-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: asburypark-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
