I spoke to the city. There is employee parking on Lake Ave and it is at reduced
cost. You cant please all the people all of the time. Maybe tweaks are needed,
but one of the rationale of having paid parking on Cookman et al, was to get a
handle on actually how much parking is needed. When it was free, the streets
were jammed and suggested that a substantial amount of parking was needed. That
is obviously not the case. Also, I have been told that when it was free, there
were quite a number of folks from Ocean Grove who parked here for free and took
the railroad. So yes a work in progress and the city, merchants and employees
will have to work it out. BTW, I never even saw anyone in the Fitness store.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@...> wrote:
>
> I've just started looking at it as a work in progress, but I can honestly say
> that as far as daytime is concerned, I've heard nothing but claims that the
> paid parking is hurting rather than helping. At least one business I know of
> who has seen a sharp downturn in their business announced on Facebook today
> that they would pay for their customers parking.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatkins@ wrote:
> >
> > I have actually been able to increase my time there during the week, now
> > that I can find parking.
> >
> > A good business person can find ways to ease the "pain" of change on their
> > customers, vouchers would have been perfect in this scenario
> >
> > But like I said, there were not many people in there BEFORE the parking
> > issue
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Hinge" <hinge98@>
> > Sender: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:01:24
> > To: <AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com>
> > Reply-To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: Asbury Fitness going out of business due to paid
> > parking
> >
> > If anything, maybe the parking issue is compounding a pre-existing issue.
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatkins@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Jack, not sure if you go to Asbury Fitness or not, but I can tell you w/o
> > > a doubt that paid parking is not what's driving them out of business
> > >
> > > I have never seen more than 4 clients in there at one time. My fiance has
> > > been going for 4yrs, me for 2yrs
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "Hinge" <hinge98@>
> > > Sender: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:01:25
> > > To: <AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Reply-To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [AsburyPark] Asbury Fitness going out of business due to paid
> > > parking
> > >
> > > I just heard that Asbury Fitness is packing it in due to complaints from
> > > patrons about the added cost of paid parking. Customers are cancelling
> > > and taking their business elsewhere.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
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