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Curious that the cries of outrage have come from the drivers with disabled tags, complaining about having to pay for parking. Seems to me that if you're capable of owning and driving a car, you should be able to pay for parking it.

The major question is, I think, this setaside of some 1500 commercial-area parking spaces for handicapped only. If there were really a need for that, then DDOT could already have posted that many spaces for handicapped only. It's only now that they've discovered a need for a handicapped-only parking space on, apparently, every commercial block. The drivers with disability tags seem not to perceive this rather generous tradeoff: pay for parking, yes, but you've got an enormous number of reserved parking spots on commercial blocks.

The delay in implementation will give us a chance to determine how many such handicapped-reserved parking spots is actually necessary. That 9% hit on already-tight curbside parking in commercial districts is substantial.

by Jack on Mar 21, 2012 11:48 am • link • report

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