At the Prospect Street Parking lot downtown lot near Blessed Sacrament Church the main parking permit machine is broken. There is only one place to purchase your window parking ticket and it is not easy to find.
The machine at the corner of Church and Leroy it out of order. There is a sign on it saying to use another machine. There used to be a machine near Sammy’s Bagels, but it is gone. The second machine is on the opposite diagonal corner and is not particularly easy to spot. It is by the trees and an apartment building.
The code enforcement officer was giving tickets last night at 6:00pm and came back an hour later to give more. Cars were festooned with parking tickets. People might not see the second machine and think they are safe from tickets. The tickets are $25, so watch out!
The city will eventually install the nicer machines that accept ATM cards, sources day. The machines will be similar to the ones in the library lot. The factory making the machines is reportedly very busy and so it will be many months before New Rochelle gets new machines.
Here is the 2nd meter far in the distance.
The PBA sticker below did not seem to help any.
Why not bring back the old library machine to this lot while waiting for the new machine? It doesn’t seem fair. The signage doesn’t clearly tell the people where the 2nd machine is. I recommend you drive to purchase your ticket and then park.
These photos were taken with a camera phone, so they are not the best. But hopefully you get the idea.
Vote Them Out of Office
Imagine this, an administration that would give you a week or two reminder. Maybe have the ticket writers place reminder cards on your vehicle stating “this could have been a $25.00 ticket, please remember that (date) begins the 24 hour parking rules and new ATM meters will be installed at these locations” Vote them out, all of them.
Chuck Strome Refused to Issue Warnings
Once the City Council voted to change the law, the BID asked the City about issuing warnings and was told that as the law was now on the books, there was no choice but to issue tickets.
It is worth noting that the City put up new signs at the lots that looked exactly like the old signs and there was no indication in the lots that the signs (i.e. the law) had changed.
The City has repeatedly denied that they were seeking to generate revenue by changing the parking laws. So far, I have found few people that believe that except for members of the BID board.
you know how I feel about the BID board
I’d still like to see a full accounting of the almost 800,000 the city has given BID.
you want a full accounting?
That’s easy.
Just send Ralph DiBart a request for the audited financial as far back as they have them. His contact information is on the BID web site.