Tacoma needs parking meters

November 14, 2008 at 7:55am

CHUCK DULA: HELP US PROF. DONALD SHOUP. YOUâ€™RE OUR ONLY HOPE >>>

I recently took a tour of the parking options of downtown Tacoma with a good friend of mine, Joe Korbuszewski. We will call him Willy. Willy works at Paddy Coyneâ€™s, which as Iâ€™m sure you know is a restaurant on the north end of Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma. If my friend Willy works during the day he can either park his car in a one hour zone and pay a ticket â€" with revenue going to the Traffic Division of the Public Works Department, or another option is he can spend five minutes out of every hour looking for a new spot to park in. Wouldn't it be better if he could park close to work and refill a meter every three hours? Or how about if he parked further away and paid for more hours at a slightly lower rate?

Something has to be done about the parking situation facing downtown Tacoma. Immediately. We need parking meters. Downtown businesses are suffering and we are creating a wasteland of consumerism.

We need Prof. Donald Shoup. We need him now. Discover why on the Weekly Volcano Web site.

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