One way to pay the bills
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- May
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Nyack recently paid more than $400,000 to install a new parking meter system in the village and now they’re boosting parking fines, more than doubling them from $12 to $25.
If you’re quick to pay—in two days or less—you get a discount to $15, still more than before.
It’s fine to boost fines and it’s fine to use that mechanism to fill the village treasury.
But how about a break. I’ve been to Nyack a few times since the new system went into use and I’m still figuring out how it works and where I can park. On one trip, I saw what I thought were three available spaces only to find that none worked for me in terms of time allowed.
And that wasn’t all that easy to figure out.
I can tell you for one that if I’ve got a choice as to where to meet someone for lunch, at least in the short term I’ll think twice before I pick Nyack.
That’s a shame and if others feel that way, it’s going to cost the village lots more than they’ll ever collect in the increased fines.
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on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am by Bob Baird.
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