City Rolls Back Rates
COUNCIL ALTERS PARKING FEE TIMES
Posted: September 22, 2010 at 5:53 a.m.
Amid impassioned pleas by Dickson Street merchants about depressed business activity, the City Council rolled back the start time for parking rates in its entertainment district to midafternoon.
AT A GLANCE
New Dickson Street Paid Parking Hours
Takes Effect Oct. 1
2 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Free
2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday: 50 cents per hour
5 p.m. to 2 a.m., Monday through Friday: $1 per hour
2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday: 50 cents per hour
6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday: $1 per hour
Source: Staff Report
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The City of Fayetteville took the shiniest apple in the cart, then kicked it. Look north to Springdale, parking, islands, meters, fees, ruined their downtown. Just because you have a popular street, Dickson shouldn't have a target on it's back. Why do you think shopping centers were created, free parking. Fayetteville, this is another black eye. Can't you just have a city council meeting and preen about good things and leave well enough alone?
Posted by: Farm123
September 22, 2010 at 6:23 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Maybe people will slowly adopt or embrace the paid parking. I don't personally want to deal with the parking situation yet. If they replace all of the paid parking with one box that I can donate money to the city, I'd put my money in that machine.
Posted by: FishFillet
September 22, 2010 at 11:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Got a taste of the parking when I saw the Blue Man Group at the Walton Arts Center. First there was a long line to get to the pay stations which did not always work correctly.
I paid indoors at WAC. I had to push my way through the crowd waiting to pay at the station located at the entrance to the parking area across from WAC on West St. Getting out of the parking area took forever due to the lines and the fact that once you paid for parking, you have to keep the ticket and feed it into a machine just to get out of the lot. They had "helpers" take the tickets and feed the machine. I exited onto Dickson from the side of the lot, I was in the left hand side of the exit and turned right onto Dickson while others were in the right lane attempting to go left -- it is an accident waiting to happen. Next time I'll use one of the free parking areas and walk a couple of blocks instead.
Posted by: fusgeyer
September 22, 2010 at 12:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Ahhhh, the law of unintended consequences. Except that some of us saw these problems coming from a mile away. Why our leaders can't see simple cause and effect is beyond me.
And that's a general statement, not meant for just Fayetteville or NWA.
Posted by: x3
September 22, 2010 at 3:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
The city of Fayetteville is so over there heads with the high priced equipment that they bought for this and the people they have had to hire to take care of the mess they have created. I was there Sunday night for the Lucinda Williams show at Georges and I think it will be the last time that I will go down there. When you park on the street you have to feed the box your money and you don’t know how long you will be there. Then you are afraid you will get a ticket. It’s just not worth the hassle. I will just stay in Benton county.
Posted by: rob575757
September 22, 2010 at 3:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
The $13,000 a year is only a drop in the bucket if there is no sales tax coming from the business on Dickson St! The city is already hurting for sales tax revenue, it's beyond me why they would do something like this that has the potential to cost them even more! Dickson St parking was bad enough to deal with but like so many have said before me, this just makes it worse. Not many people will deal with it. I'm wondering how the fans coming for the football game this weekend will feel about it. Good luck to all the wonderful places of business on Dickson...I'm sorry you're the ones who are having to suffer!
Posted by: Momnic
September 23, 2010 at 3:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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