In fact, they are here, stored in some DPW garage awaiting placement. The kiosks will soon take the place of parking meters to collect parking fees on Warren Street and in municipal parking lots.
A couple of weeks ago, Councilmember Jennifer Belton (Fourth Ward), who now chairs the ad hoc Parking Committee tasked with implementing the recommendations made in the parking study done back in 2022, presented the Parking Plan to be implemented this spring. The plan, which involves paid parking the entire length of Warren Street, can be found here.
In conjunction with the rollout of the Parking Plan, the Parking Committee is seeking input from the community on a Parking Survey. That survey can to found here.
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Input suggestion: Do not trust the kiosk technology, you will regret it. TOO MANY THINGS CAN GO WRONG AND WILL GO WRONG. Keep it simple and funky. Fixing a parking meter is easy and cheap.
ReplyDeleteReplacing them is easy and cheap, too. Kioskss are for big cities, not Hudson.
Stick to quarters and stop obsessing about squeezing every last dollar out of each parking space with your apps and demand pricing, which is exactly what THEY convinced Jen Belton the city needs to do. Find revenue streams elsewhere, like forcing owners of abandoned properties to pay the thousand dollars a year they are SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING BUT CODE ENFORCEMENT DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE ABOUT. How much have we lost out on that inaction? Why is there never any discussion about this?
If we listen to the kiosk technology companies selling us their planned obsolescent ugly and awkward technology relying on electricity and more paper, we will regret it and it will all get thrown out some day. FAIL! WASTE OF MONEY! You watch, this will be a huge failure sooner than later and Belton and Depietro won't be around to take the blame
Hold on to those meters you are removing, we will need them again someday.
What is the point of a parking survey at this point in the process?
ReplyDeleteThe Committee has not been responsive to citizen's concerns.
I've had a business on the 100 block of Warren since 2006. It has always been a quiet, mixed use, primarily residential block with a few low impact business. In my opinion, the implementation of paid parking on the block will have a negative impact on the businesses that already operate in a low traffic neighborhood and upon the residents.
ReplyDeleteFactoring in the costs of the kiosks and the creation and maintenance of a new department, a Parking Bureau, with it's employees and benefits, how much profit will be made on the parking fees? The city seems to keep adding more paid positions, more departments and creating more programs that cost taxpayers money without consideration of the impact on residents and local businesses. Perhaps it's time, rather than thinking of ways to collect more revenue from fees imposed on residents, to consider reducing expenses by eliminating, rather than adding new programs and fees.