St Mary of the Immaculate Conception on 2nd st told the funeral guests to just park and block the street. People parked, like me, who need to go can’t leave. What can I do? How is this allowed?down_up__left_right t1_jat1sab wrote
Reply to comment by Ilanaspax in St Mary of the Immaculate Conception on 2nd st told the funeral guests to just park and block the street. People parked, like me, who need to go can’t leave. What can I do? How is this allowed? by munchlaxsleeps
>wait 30 minutes for the weekend lightrail to run their errands if they deign to enter the downtown bubble.
You might want to check the calendar if you think today is a weekend.
But if the alternative is parking cars in the center of a street, blocking all traffic, and then leaving the cars there for an extended period of time then yes people should be taking public transit to a place within walking distance to both the path and the lightrail.
How long did this guy (and anyone else) have to wait as he was boxed in by illegally parked cars?
Ilanaspax t1_jat30fp wrote
It’s almost like my comment was a reply to someone demanding we ban cars from downtown in general? It’s okay - reading can be hard for some people :)
down_up__left_right t1_jat3b1d wrote
>It’s almost like my comment was a reply to someone demanding we ban cars from downtown in general?
As I already said that's not true.
Since the post is there for us all to read we can see that what he said was:
>Jersey City needs a congestion fee for out of town drivers. They need to increase the cost for a permit to drive more people to get rid of the cars that they don’t need and use public transportation (we obviously need better public transportation as well). They need to increase parking fines and increase the number of cars that are towed.
Nowhere in his post is he arguing for banning cars.
>It’s okay - reading can be hard for some people :)
The irony.
Ilanaspax t1_jat5e1x wrote
Amazing that you did all this and still missed the point - you can’t limit people’s access to downtown without improving public transit infrastructure. It’s classist and shitty to the rest of JC.
down_up__left_right t1_jat6o5s wrote
>you can’t limit people’s access to downtown without improving public transit infrastructure.
Here we are in a post about people choosing to drive and park in the center of the street for a location within walking distance to both the path and the lightrail and you're saying the cause is lack of public transit. Both of those transit systems that can easily get people to this Church have stations that are park and ride focused.
The reality is these people had transit options and just chose to drive instead. The reality is most of downtown is accessible by transit. Driving through downtown is a choice. JerseyCityGeordie just wants that choice to reflect the cost of the land it requires. Especially since not everyone can afford a car so why should they be subsidizing the cost of parking for other people?
If some people parked in the middle of the road by Union Square in the city would you say "Well maybe their trip didn't originate directly next to a subway stop so the blame is on the public transit system?" Or would you at least agree that would be a crazy thing to say? This isn't that far off from that heighten example. This is a location that people can get to without cars.
>It’s classist and shitty to the rest of JC.
What should we call parking in the middle of the road?
WarrenBuffetsDriver t1_jauvn75 wrote
>You might want to check the calendar if you think today is a weekend.
If you don't own a car you do not have it on weekdays or weekends.
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