4th & Washington

Bill, does the sign say “FULL”?

Or does it say, “0″?

It read “0″ (I was walking w/ Bill).

Here are Bill’s photos. http://monkey.org/~bill/pics/noparking/

Ha. Evidence of a DDA conspiracy to create the illusion that we “need” the underground parking on the library lot?

It appears to be a malfunction with the numbering system. When the structure is full, the sign says “Full”.

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The plot thickens. Two council meetings ago. Leigh Greden — in making the case that more parking capacity was needed — said something like “When the counter says zero …” During the intermission, I ‘confronted’ Leigh: “You’ve never even actually seen a parking structure empty! They say FULL, not 0! Ha HAH!” And Joe Morehouse, deputy director of the DDA, confirmed that … until he checked with someone else and said that the counters on the structures say 0 when full, which required that I inform Greden he’d been right all along. I took Merrill’s photos to be further confirmation of that.

As for the issue yesterday, it’s important to understand that the signs work on an in-out counter basis, and get re-set every morning based on a manual count. As a result of an inquiry made by Greden, it’s emerged that the re-set had not taken place, leading to the erroneous display.

That is not what I heard – I heard that it said “full” – so who is right? (Actually, who cares – this is obviously a malfunction of the sign – let it go)

There are two signs – the numerical counter mounted on the building which reads “0″ when it thinks there are no spaces left, and the sign alongside the entrance drive which reads “full” when it thinks the structure is full. I don’t know if these two signs work off the same data, but one think they would.