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I was at the meeting. Yes you are correct, post-10pm they want to charge $15 each night (but not per hour). It did not go over well. There is another public meeting about it Thursday.
Let's say you come downtown at 9pm to eat at a restaurant or bar. The first hour is going to always be supposedly free. If you are in the restaurant past 10pm, you need to pay $15 in the app.
They are trying to find a way to make the people who leave their cars overnight after a night of drinking pay a fair price, but this isn't the way.
Last edited by GarnetAndBlack; 08-21-2019 at 01:53 PM..
Sheesh. I’m against encouraging cars in Uptown, but this would be foolish. I can’t see anyone being behind this plan.
It's was sarcasm. Akin to the insurance commission projecting thirty percent increases, but 'relent' by settling on a fourteen percent increase, when the public wanted something in the 2-3% range.
It's was sarcasm. Akin to the insurance commission projecting thirty percent increases, but 'relent' by settling on a fourteen percent increase, when the public wanted something in the 2-3% range.
Haha, I understood the sarcasm, and the rationale you’re saying here. I’m saying $15 an hour, as the article stated, would be a nightmare.
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Originally Posted by GarnetAndBlack
I was at the meeting. Yes you are correct, post-10pm they want to charge $15 each night (but not per hour). It did not go over well. There is another public meeting about it Thursday.
Let's say you come downtown at 9pm to eat at a restaurant or bar. The first hour is going to always be supposedly free. If you are in the restaurant past 10pm, you need to pay $15 in the app.
They are trying to find a way to make the people who leave their cars overnight after a night of drinking pay a fair price, but this isn't the way.
Ah okay, $15 a night is more reasonable albeit I still don’t agree with that strategy. What about implementing a late night bus route for the weekend, a trolley or something along those lines?
They claim that it is to fund the necessary security downtown at night and upkeep of the lots. Last year $150k was spent in police overtime downtown at night.
One person asked why the police security isn’t covered by taxes we already pay (good point) and another suggested spreading the cost through the hourly fees throughout the day rather than gouging night time visitors when the parking lot usage is trending downward.
Hey pyro--just want to check, since you mentioned Matthews and relocation. This is the forum for Greenville, NC, an hour and a half east of Raleigh, and not Greenville, SC, an hour and a half west-southwest of Matthews.
350k is gonna get you anything you want in Greenville, NC.
In the Coastal North Carolina forum do separate searches on Greenville and Winterville. If you still have questions after that, then originate a new thread of your own. A $400K housing budget, you'll be able to pick from most of the top communities in Pitt County. You could even spend $200K on a house and send your kids to private school.
(1) Eliminate on-street parking.
(2) Shared-use agreement for ECU parking downtown and allow businesses to enter into similar agreements with each other (consider the two lots with a fence between them at Dickinson/Pitt, city lot next to the gravel lot just across the way).
(3) Make all lots paid at a low rate (50c/hr) at all times.
(4) Stop the city leases for fleet vehicles in the 4th Street Garage.
End result is a distributed parking solution with a low rate AND it will free up an addition 8'-0 of right-of-way for wider sidewalks, bike lanes that encourage walking and alternative transportation into the uptown district.
Downtown is 48% parking lot according to the council workshop. Parking is not the issue, available parking and breaking the insane notion that there's such a thing as "free parking" is.
Aside from the current project between the Wilson/Greene county line and Greenville, no US-264/Future I-587 projects were included in the final draft 2020-2029 STIP.
Not a surprise. We don't have enough local input points in the funding prioritization process to make any such projects competitive and there's still rounds of planning work necessary to get I-587 projects into a competitive environment.
Those STIP projects will be those that have a prayer of being completed in the next ten years. Look at MPO/Division 2 LRTP for where the interstate work will be.
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Lots of access management projects and sidewalk construction in our area. Excellent--an overabundance of driveways along major thoroughfares contributes to congestion. This should improve throughput on Greenville Blvd and Charles during peak demand.
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