Comments on: SoNo’s Webster Parking Lot Gets A Makeover

By: Urbanist

Urbanist — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:35:14 +0000

The parking uthority should be reformed with the goal of maximizing property value, not parking revenue. Or maybe of serving the public.

By: Yippee!

Yippee! — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:58:17 +0000

I take it Stephen works for the parking people? Ever get a ticket from that guy down there now? There is no beating that so one could argue that this is a better solution for the City. If you know you are going to a 2 hr movie you can simply do the math. The traffic will flow a lot easier and we no longer need to compensate 2 different booths and a 3rd party company that makes a profit from the taxpayers! Complain to the people in the booth? About what? They didn’t even speak english.

By: BLARNEY

BLARNEY — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:40:41 +0000

I have appealed a parking ticket to the Parking Authority, that I believed was in error, and it was removed.

There is always a way.

By: Secondhand Rose

Secondhand Rose — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:55:24 +0000

I had to laugh at the comment in today’s Hour article when John Federici was quoted as saying “now we have the technology”.

Norwalk has ALWAYS had the technology.

It was called PARKING METERS.

By: Just asking...

Just asking... — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:06 +0000

Never had any trouble with the guys in the booth. Simple enough to pay. And there’s that grace period if you’re just running into the bank. People…free parking is not a birthright. Get over it.

By: Stephen Bentkover

Stephen Bentkover — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:17:50 +0000

For you, yippee and all of the rest of you who believe that the removal of those booths will be the panacea you have dreamed of, you are in for a rude awakening when it finally happens. Just imagine your consternation when the traffic control person who has just finished writing out a ticket because you are 5 minutes over the alloted time you purchased, says that there is nothing you can do to not get that ticket. Then who will you cry to? City Hall? Will you claim it is unfair that you went for takeout food, didn’t put in any money in the pay station, and got a ticket? Or it took longer then you thought? Or isn’t there a grace period?

Let’s not forget that leaving the lot after the movie was hard enough when one line had to be formed to go through the checkout. How about those three or four cars trying to squeeze into that lane by not giving an inch to any other driver? Remember years ago, trying to get out of that lot? Cars from everywhere trying to squeeze into two lanes or trying to make three of four. And, the light won’t be any faster or make your life easier. But, you will have gotten rid of the little pay station, and the people who worked there will be out of a job and your lives. And from now on, there will be no one to complain to, because you will be responsible for yourselves.

Someone much wiser then me once said” be careful what you wish for, as you might get it”. As long as people from Norwalk have this sense of entitlement about parking, there will be no parking authority, city agency or service or management company which will ever satisfy you. So, good luck with your new lot configuration and I hope that you are happy with it, because while the budgets for this city are stretched, you have now forced the parking authority and city to spend redundant capital dollars. Are you happy? Speaking as an original parking authority member, I am sad to see that in the time since I served, nothing has changed.

By: Yippee!

Yippee! — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:58:50 +0000

This is great news. If you park and in Stamford you’ll find how easy it is not having to deal with those miserables that inhabit those parking toll cells/cages. I have paid on the way in and on the way out and called LAZ to report the complaint and they do nothing! In fact, the same people are still working there. Perhaps we can donate the booths to the Norwalk Museum? As a forgotten times’ type thing? At least there would be something there!

Speaking of the past has anyone purchased the new Norwalk pictorial History book yet? Reccomended! I only wish they could have incorporated photos that stretch into the 70′s.