137th in a series of posts on parking
The Parking Authority Board meets today: 4PM at their headquarters.
See the memo below: the exec dir did move immediately after the October 23 Board meeting to contact City Council about the free parking pilot program suggested by Councilwoman Van Wirt.
Gadfly — certainly skeptical of BPA’s intention, for the Board has shown noooo interest in such a program — sees the memo as an attempt to stifle the idea with a daunting homework assignment.
He’d have hoped for a meeting of the Board with interested Council members out of which a cooperative plan for a pilot might have emerged.
Of related interest is the provision for free parking in the Northside downtown for the holidays: see https://bethpark.org/news.
Now that they’ve put it out there, ‘we the people’ can show our interest with support for this concept, share relevant research from other communities, etc. And I’ll be interested to see how the holiday free parking thing goes.