Parking meters will return to the downtown area this summer.
Two-hour metered parking will stretch from East Milton to Central Avenue along Main Street while one-hour metered parking will be on Irving Street. The cost will be 50 cents an hour, purchased in half-hour intervals.
Some will replace meters that were taken out when the change to two-way traffic downtown was made last summer and some will replace meters taken off the streets about 15 years ago. Approval has been received from the County of Union and the Rahway Police Department’s Traffic Bureau to replace them, Parking Authority Executive Director Donald Andersen told the City Council last week.
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Friends,How foolish. I like to take friends to restaurants downtown for lunch. Now I have to deal with this parking silliness. It's not that big of a deal, but I can go to restaurants in other locations that don't have meters. I understand why they are doing this, but the two hour parking limit should work if the parking authority would check the cars. I live on Elm and I see cars parked on Elm everyday that disappear at 6PM. I haven't seen a Parking Authority car on my street in a long time.
Well this stinks. I live on Main, and when I go grocery shopping, I frequently need to park my car right outside my apartment to unload my car for a few minutes. I do NOT like double-parking (being a good citizen that I am). I have a parking space in the lot behind my building, however, dragging 10 bags of groceries around the blocks is quite difficult. There nearly always was a spot available but the thought of having to pay to use a space for 5 minutes really just galls me. I understand that the City probably needs the money, I just wish residents who live on those streets, had some kind of special pass or something for those times when we need to access those spots for a few moments. Unrealistic of me I supposed, but a fantasy I'll admit to.
I don't dispute that they need something to control the daily parkers who commute into the city and park their cars all day on the main streets of town. But 2 hour limits? Very short-sighted. Should be at least 3 hours. Bad news for anyone who lives downtown and wants to have company over for a few hours.
Will there be special decals residents can use to park in front of their apartments for loading and unloading things like groceries, as Elora stated above; or has the prevailing attitude of ''once we get em here we don't care'' about their quality of life the officials of this city seem to perpetuate?
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This is not how they get more people start going downtown…