On Tuesday, the City Council’s Public Works Committee approved a proposal to allow three-hour parking on Lakeshore Avenue between MacArthur Boulevard and the 12th Street Dam (PDF).
Now, I have never owned a car since I’ve lived in Oakland. In fact, I have never once even driven a car in Oakland. So where you are and are not allowed to park isn’t something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about....
But not the kind of paper they use to print bus passes.
Do you guys remember a couple months ago when the City Council was talking about how they could bring in some extra revenue by limiting the amount of City employees who got free parking in City garages and renting those spaces out to the public instead? Except that the list was like, really not very limited (see the list here) and it turned out that all that...
Do you guys remember all that noise about parking meters this summer and fall? Of course you do. How could you possibly forget. Aside from the fact we have a lot of crime here in Oakland, I can’t think of any issue since I’ve lived here that has received such relentless media coverage.
Anyway, as you likely recall, after two contentious meetings, the Council voted to reverse their June decision that...
This afternoon, the Oakland City Council’s Finance and Management Committee discussed, among other things, the issue of parking privileges for city employees (PDF). You may have caught the item about this from The Oakbook the other day. If not, here’s the proposal.
One of the issues raised as part of budget discussions earlier this year was the cost of providing free parking in City garages to City...
It was a great pleasure watching the City Council’s Public Works Committee’s discussion of parking issues last Tuesday.
As most of you probably remember, the City Council voted to raise the hourly parking meter price to $2 and extend the operating hours of parking meters from 6 to 8 PM as part of this summer’s budget process. The changes, coupled with a widespread perception of increased...