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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Park jitney?
Ideas include spots for only Old Towners

The city of Key West appears inclined to move forward on a proposal backed by Mayor Craig Cates to encourage workers who drive downtown to their jobs to park in city-managed lots, such as the Park-n-Ride garage and Angela Street parking lot.

Other parking proposals, outlined at a Wednesday evening workshop at Old City Hall, were met with slightly less enthusiasm from city...

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I agree

the city does not enforce anything after the newness wears off and depending on what the ordinance is, that can be as little as 1 day or as much as 1 month. I like when they ticketed us for our boat being in the street, but let bums and tourists live in rvs and vans on our city streets and do nothing. I pay real estate taxes and the bums and winter tourists who live in their vehicles pay what , oh yea NOTHING.

It doesn't matter

The City never enforces the current parking laws so why bother with new ones? This is nothing more then a way to justify charging residents new fees. Literally every day there are out of state cars and rental cars parked in residential spots on my street and I have NEVER seen a single parking ticket. Enforce the current laws. Yes, even against the tourists. The City would make a fortune and we would not need new rules or an overpaid Parking Tsar.

I'll keep saying it until the city does something...

The city keeps issuing residential parking permits to vehicles with out- of- state tags. In Florida one of the residency requirements is to register and tag your vehicle in your county within 10 days. If the city would stop issuing residential parking permits to non- residents this would help the problem immensely. If these people want to follow the law they have the option of registering their vehicle as required and then the county and state could at least collect the tax dollars, but as long as the city keeps allowing these residential permits to be issued to non- residents this part of the parking problem will continue. I know of at least 10 cars on my street alone like this... that's a lot of spaces.

Jitney??

Yeah, we need jitneys-- one more vehicle jamming traffic in Old Town.

Don't these people even think?

Another money loser

Let's see. The Key West city bus system costs the city an average of $6+ for every rider, but they only collect $2. How much is the city going to waste on a new mode of transit that no one is going to ride?

That's why I voted for you Tony !

Keep it up and you'll be Mayor.

why?

why is so much time being wasted on parking? this is a problem that can only be solved by making the island bigger. (build more spaces)

Jitneys ?

Great, just what we need. More vehicles on the streets of downtown Key West.

City should look at other impacted communities...

The city should issue color-coded residential permits and limit street parking in impacted areas to specific residents. Local workers should receive consideration at designated facilities, but residential parking should be reserved for residents.
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