Comments for 0 at http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:54:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080723142742/opinion/editorials/making-change-for-the-meters.html#comment-9227 other than northern hardware there is not any other business i would go downtown to spend money on. 2 many lowlifes wandering around killing business and they havent done anything about it in 10 years why would they now? free 2 hr parking is the answer another poorly thought council move as usual - sledhead37 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:48:34 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080723142742/opinion/editorials/making-change-for-the-meters.html#comment-9206 Mick has a couple points, and I would agree that it isn't that hard to just put a quarter in the meter. I would rather not have to carry quarters around with me however, and I also like the idea of not having parking meters with no heads sitting around. It's either have parking meters or don't have them - this grab-bag-o-parking that we have right now is dumb. Also, has anyone considered that without parking meters you will be without employees to maintain and empty them? The wage and overhead you save from not having meters is probably substantial. As for this being a tax grab... there sure are easier ways to do that as can be seen by the property tax increases. And there is still plenty of free and customer parking, as well as ticket-dispenser city parking, in downtown. I know that The Keg has customer parking (also 2 hour lunch? Nice.) - Wolvan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:19:05 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080723142742/opinion/editorials/making-change-for-the-meters.html#comment-9204 How hard is it to dig in your purse or wallet to come up with a quarter to park somewhere while you shop...in my expereince not hard. I would much rather pay a quarter every time that I park somewhere rather than get plunked with a $25 parking ticket. Lets be a little serious here, if the City Coucilors and the Mayor were to take a wage decrease and put that back into the community than they would not have to think of ways to charge us taxpayers more for our recreational activities(ie, shopping downtown, going for lunch at the Keg, etc.) - ccurle01 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:14:42 +0100 http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080723142742/opinion/editorials/making-change-for-the-meters.html#comment-9203 One correction Mick - they are not putting dispensers on the roads, as far as I can tell from the two articles in the paper, which is why they would hire the two extra parking-cops. At $20 an hour, a yearly salary would be $41,600 net... even with exorbitant benefit usage, that only comes to around $100,000 a year for the both of 'em. Sure, that's a chunk of change, but even discounting the increased revenue due to having no warning-tickets and the increase to $25, $100,000 is a drop of water in an ocean compared to the annual operating budget of the municipality. - Wolvan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:50:54 +0100