Do you honk your support for sundry demonstrations? Do you throw your invisibility cloak over your car so that demonstrators and other sign-wavers can’t see you?
While I usually take the easy way, I confess to both. (NOTE: Roadside radar is not fooled by that darned cloak.)
I have a certain level of admiration for those boots-on-the-ground/hard-way takers. Regardless of their issues, those hardy folks are out there doing what they’ve been called to do, often in inclement weather with sideways rain pelting their clothing and ruining their placards.
Me? I often take the easy way: warm sun, cushy chair, coffee and keyboard struggling only against the constant, buffeting winds of my own mighty draft.
To my way of thinking, those hardy hardliners can take comfort in the fact that they have a right to complain when/if a given issue fails, as well as the right to celebrate its victory. Those of us who do not enter into a particular fray have neither. Simply put: “If you don’t hawk, don’t squawk.”
On Monday, March 2, the Newport City Council will hold another public hearing on their plans to adopt a recommendation from the Parking Study Advisory Committee into the city’s comprehensive plan. The recommendation is based almost entirely on findings produced by Lancaster Street Labs, who studied three areas of the city (City Center, Nye Beach and the Bayfront) in an effort to find an answer to the parking situation. Lancaster’s singular solution: metered parking. Of the three areas, however, only the Bayfront is slated for this new arrangement.
While metered/permitted parking may alleviate some of the issues, it will do nothing to solve major traffic congestion along the narrow west end of Bay Boulevard. On the positive side, the metering/permitting system may do away with some of the “proprietary parking rights,” and it might be just the cash cow the city has been hoping for.
Then again, who knows? Maybe metered parking along Bay Boulevard is just what Newport needs. But why doesn’t Newport need this same system for their lot in City Center? I don’t know, perhaps you could ask.
Do the hard thing: attend the city council meeting at 6 p.m. on March 2. Don’t go to the Newport police and complain about that parking ticket because you failed to feed some soon-to-be-installed meter.
Cris Torp
South Beach
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