Mayor Nickels Proposes Less Parking
Could someone explain to me just how Seattle's Mayor got re-elected using transportation as one of his major platforms? First he's hell-bent on Big Dig West, and now he wants less parking downtown.
Think about the last time you tried to find parking on the street in Seattle. Unless you had a day of great parking karma, it wasn't very easy was it?Sounds pretty half-baked to me. Difficulty finding parking (that's a candidate for understatement of the year) is already one of the main reasons that I don't go downtown very often. Sure, my wife & I could take the 522 Express bus and get downtown in a little more than a half an hour, if we wanted to spend $10 to do it. Or, we could go somewhere closer instead, get there quicker, easily find a free parking spot, and pay pennies quarters for the gas to do it. I guess if Mayor Nickels wants downtown to become more and more of a closed-off social club, then this is the way to go.
But now, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is proposing even fewer parking spaces in the future and as you might imagine, there are a lot not too happy with that plan.
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Nickels says he wants to make our city more livable. When new condos go up anyplace out of the downtown core, they won't have to build as many parking spaces for residents.
So, many worry those extra cars will wind up on the street, creating a terrible crunch.
To discourage that, the plan proposes less free street parking and more meters with a maximum two hour limit.
(KOMO Staff, KOMO News, 04.11.2006)
1 comment:
I saw the report on this on Q13 last night and laughed out loud when it was asserted that Nickels wanted customers to keep coming to Seattle, just not their cars. I noted that Nickels also wanted to moon to be made of cheese, and clouds of cotton candy.
PS: Nice to see you have a blog I won't feel obligated to beat up on! If Seattle housing ever does take a true nosedive, you'll have people like Greg Nickels to thank... aren't you working at cross purposes here? :)
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