fat-ass-bike wrote:
You can always dig up the green park area and have under ground parking!
Imagine if parking was available under all the parks in JC!

harsimoose wrote:
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freedom wrote:
How about home owners being able to paint your LIC#
on the curb, and that is your spot from 6pm to 6am 7 days
a week. this would really make sence after a reval, and
our taxes double or triple. Resident taxpayers should come
First!

hogwash.

you do not OWN the curbside space in front of your property. and you should not expect something of ENORMOUS value (private, deeded parking in a densely populated urban area) without PAYING for it.

When you bought your house or your condo, you knew it didn't come with parking. Now that your hindsight is 20/20, you clamor that you should be GIVEN something you did not pay for? NO WAY BUB.

It's like the new dog-owning residents who move here and then complain about the fact that there isn't a dog run every 2 blocks, or the yuppies who think having a Whole Foods within walking distance is some sort of fundamental right. The "i'm here now, here's my list of entitlements" phenomenon. And it's everybody's fault but their own that the time they spent drooling over the stainless steel appliances in the kitchen they just bought should have been spent doing simple, basic research.

If you own a car, and you didn't buy a property that comes with parking, and you are too cheap or lazy to garage your car, you have YOURSELF to blame, not other drivers, not people who frequent the nice businesses in our neighborhoods and come from all over the place to do so (therefore keeping them afloat), and NOT the city.

Poor you.

heights wrote:
Every business should have a meter in front of it,

towns in Bergen county require a resident only use of their facilities, even the Hudson County town of Secaucus has asked people using the basketball courts to show id.

Remember this ain't Manhattan, the city (J.C). has not even come close to implementing a plan to satisfy all in the parking problem. It is designed to create ticket issuing sort of like musical chairs. When the condos are complete the new owners have a choice of buying a parking space in the building which is another additional cost . If the Jersey City Parking Authority had a plan like Verizon has with the privacy rights of the Caller ID system it would work. You can block your number and you can refuse calls that do block their number. Both parties have their rights.

I think Hoboken has the best plan uniformed zoned parking and only one side of the of streets for non resident parking.

It's bizzare why our town will not make it normal for parking here.

fat-ass-bike wrote:

What happens if you live in a 3 family brownstone that has 4 cars...

ianmac47 wrote:
Oh, you also want to get rid of the 2 hour parking. That's a bad idea too, unless you're willing to have more streets with metered. People come to do things in the downtown during the day, for less than two hours, and there wouldn't be enough metered spots. Non-downtowners actually do use the city parks. Should they too have to pay to use city facilities? Or the library? Or then there are the businesses that aren't near main business corridors. They need their non-downtown patrons to park nearby. Let's say there is a pet store on Erie street, 5 blocks from the meters on Newark Avenue. Their customers want to be able to park closer to the store than that or will go elsewhere. So then does the city install three or four meters on Erie? I sure as hell hope not.

freedom wrote:
How about home owners being able to paint your LIC#
on the curb, and that is your spot from 6pm to 6am 7 days
a week. this would really make sence after a reval, and
our taxes double or triple. Resident taxpayers should come
First!

freedom wrote:
How about home owners being able to paint your LIC#
on the curb, and that is your spot from 6pm to 6am 7 days
a week. this would really make sence after a reval, and
our taxes double or triple. Resident taxpayers should come
First!

loucheNJ wrote:
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freedom wrote:
How about home owners being able to paint your LIC#
on the curb, and that is your spot from 6pm to 6am 7 days
a week. this would really make sence after a reval, and
our taxes double or triple. Resident taxpayers should come
First!

I've always thought that was a good idea - I would just add that homeowners w/o cars should be able to rent their curbs or have them available for guests or workmen.

freedom wrote:
How about home owners being able to paint your LIC#
on the curb, and that is your spot from 6pm to 6am 7 days
a week. this would really make sence after a reval, and
our taxes double or triple. Resident taxpayers should come
First!

tern wrote:
As an aside can anyone explain why some parking places have signs saying "nose in parking only"? Why does it matter if you are nose or tail in?

This has long puzzled me.

Robin.

Kabukiman wrote:
While I respect your opinion the point still is that I, like many residents, do have a car and I am not looking to get rid of it or relocate. I also understand some of the folks parking here are residents who do not have permits. This one shocks me because it is not difficult at all to acquire a permit. And, once you have it, you can renew it through the mail. So to me that excuse falls flat as well.

A Chevy Tahoe takes up almost twice as much space as a Honda Civic, yet the city is doing nothing to discourage drivers from parking oversized vehicles on the street.

Kabukiman wrote:
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What about municipal parking lots?

Yes! This is more like it. Why not municipal parking lots? Works in many other cities. Philadelphia does it, Baltimore does it, hell Lancaster, Pennsylvania does it. Our parking here is terrible in NYC and JC. There is alot that could be done to alleviate the issue. Better permitting based on apartment type, vehicle limits based on family size, incentives to get rid of your car, etc.

I'm also a fan of dropping notes on peoples windshields for parking like morons. I have one on my block as well who is notorious for driving down the side of the street recklessly and parking wherever he likes. He actually backed into my car the night I brought it home from the dealership....hard.

So, back to my original statement. What can be done? Letter writing, community meetings? I am willing to do what I have to do to at least get this matter looked into.

What about municipal parking lots?

Be careful in general though because, as you say, this can be because of vehicles coming and going.

djh101 wrote:
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Im tired of seeing people park so awkwardly that nobody can use the space in back or the front.

In all fairness, as other cars come and go, someone who has actually parked correctly and considerately can end up looking like they f*cked up or intentionally took two spots. So, not all cases are intentionally inconsiderate parking.

But, you're absolutely right ---- there are many, many who do it intentionally either just to be a jerk or because God forbid some other car should come to close to their vehicle.

I have a guy on my block who does this very thing --- he'll come home and park himself smack-dab in the middle of an open space that is easily 2+ cars long. I know it's intentional because even when he's forced to park "normally" and a car in front of him or behind him leaves, he'll actually come out of the house and move his car a half-space (forward or back) to regain his buffer zone.

He's such a colossal a**hole that I would actually post his address, but anyone on my block who knows who I am certainly also knows who I'm talking about.

Im tired of seeing people park so awkwardly that nobody can use the space in back or the front.