Comments on: First Street & W. William http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/11/03/first-street-w-william/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-street-w-william it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Dave Askins http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/11/03/first-street-w-william/comment-page-1/#comment-76703 Dave Askins Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:21:14 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=75239#comment-76703 At the DDA board meeting today, these “fringe” areas were described as a part of the parking demand management strategy already in place. Meters there are priced at $0.70 per hour and you can park for 10 hours (as opposed to 2 hours elsewhere). It was acknowledged that publicizing the reduced price and extended hours for these “park and walk” meters should be a part of the DDA’s communications effort.

DDA board member Russ Collins noted that these meters reminded him of Geoff Larcom’s joke that Eastern Michigan University doesn’t have a parking problem, it has a walking problem. [Larcom is EMU executive director of media relations and former reporter for the Ann Arbor News.] Here’s a map showing the half-price meters: [link]

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