City Council Increases Rate For Downtown Parking Meters

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The City Council Monday night increased the hourly rate for Downtown parking meters from $1 to $1.50, an initiative that was built into the budget year that began July 1.

A proposal to increase meter fines from $20 to $40 was jettisoned and sent back to the Ordinance Committee.

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  1. What OIB does not cover in this “news” from the Council:
    *When the Administration changed parking meters and such violations from the Police Department to, perhaps Public Facilities, why is the Parking Meter info still shown on the Police website? A brief form of misinformation.
    *Several downtown businesses spoke against BOTH Ordinances as decreasing the convenience for downtown guests to have ready, street access that is affordable. No statement of revenues necessary to maintain our current policy was made or how a raising of rates will be helpful in meeting a City revenue target.
    *When I delivered a ticket and letter to Police Violations I was handled professionally by personnel. But a subseqent email and phone call to the Parking Violations line secured no researched response to questions. For example, when a meter is broken away from its base, how long does it take for replacement (and a return from ZERO revenue flow to the budget)?
    *Finally, why is there no PARKING AUTHORITY COMMISSION today and the OVERSIGHT that might follow from citizen, taxpayer, and economic development voices?
    Time will tell.

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  2. Another brilliant move to revitalize a dead downtown. The merchants must really be pleased with this new “initiative” to “help” downtown business. And the Downtown Special Services District President/BOD had nothing to say about this? And the DSSD President gets paid?! For what?!

    Fairfield. The best downtown in Connecticut. Not one parking meter…. (Average IQ of the CC — maybe 75….)

    Joe Ganim for Governor!

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  3. Jeff, you don’t see your illogicalness in not having a meter downtown as you talk down to people. Those parking spaces would be eaten up by those who live and work downtown.

    They were on the right track whit the AI/smartphone meters that Downtown bitched about.

    To best utilize short/quick stop patronize/foot traffic for DT businesses, offer free parking for the first 15 minutes and levy fines in stages. Lower the first stage fine to $10 for the first hour, or the remaining 45 minutes of the first hour and $25 after. Since every meter is its own parking law enforcement, without overlap, fines are guaranteed to be tagged for violation, the meters would be easily accessible with smartphone payment.

    Everybody wins. Every meter gets fed and fined for violators, without being overly penalized for the first hour. The business/patrons get 15 minutes to do what they have to do, for free, with remote easy access to feed the meter. The revenue is fair and consonant with the operator company and the city.

    Though based on John’s take. It may seem how benefits from the revenue take, are there any hands in the jar?

    At any rate peace out my friends, play nice Port.

    You supports?

    The Prophet

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDZHLJa328&t=52s

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    1. Fairfield. The best downtown in Connecticut. Not one parking meter…. (Average IQ of the Bridgeport CC — maybe 75….) Bridgeport has nowhere near the number of workers working in the downtown compared to Fairfield, yet Fairfield manages to accommodate their thousands of parking place needs without meters. I wonder why(?)…

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  4. As I said, it is called common sense, The Port is not Fairfield. The courts alone will eat up the space, don’t you think? Those who are currently paying for parking, and using the garages will stop and use the free parking you are proposing. No?

    Fairfield is accommodated with parking lots; they have more space. Unless I am wrong there is parking behind their developments. No, I believe Black Rock has meter-free parking though. 🙂

    PS While I don’t go to Fairfield library as office as I used to, Trumbull’s is much closer. There were times it was hard to find parking. JS

    As I stated The Port has to build strategic parking garages if and when things get developed, particularly by teh Amp. I believe I made an assumption, regarding.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU

    PS don’t wonder to long, IT the Gold Coast, 🙂

    Yeff, with a Y. Latin base. 🤣

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  6. The Quantum Mechanic. Gravity is a particle,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH70kTm25Es

    However. I don’t think you will find a graviton, gravity in particle form, because gravity is to be quantum level. Wave.

    It’s why light behaves in Wave-particle duality forms.

    The age-old question, what came first the chicken or the egg? not only did the wave come first, it is the essence of all things on its most quantum level.

    Thus motion, waves, creates gravity on Earth with its rotation, the universe’s spiral gravities are due to the rotation of its four-dimensional universe, in a multiverse in an infinite, what I call space, space. 🙂 Or not.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRTKSzAOBr4

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  9. It isn’t just the parking that has downtown down. There are plenty of places that do well and have terrible parking. Milford does well and parking there is terrible Should be a big survey and ask the people from all the local towns what keeps them away from downtown. I have to think number 1 will be They Don’t Feel Safe.

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  10. You’re right Coach. Safety is probably the biggest thing. The lack (shortage) of truly attractive, alluring venues is another biggie…. But for something “alluring” to locate and take off in Bridgeport’s downtown, the environment has to be safe and it has to be conveniently accessible in an attractive setting. There are very few such spaces available in Bridgeport’s downtown. Fairfield is already packed with such development….

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