Comments on: Visit To Downtown Boise Can Have Hidden Costs

By: Flyhead

Flyhead — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:41:16 +0000

Perhaps the Mayor wants to emulate the draconian parking fees of other big cities with the new and improved parking fees.

I find the parking fees off-putting when it comes to downtown Boise. There are just too many other places I can patronize and they have free parking. Parking tickets and lack of parking are two of the things that got malls started. Free parking and proximity to merchants are what drive my decisions when looking for merchants who have the goods and services I need.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:25:10 +0000

Dear Mr. Mayor, The food & beer, shopping, banking, and professional services are just as good or better where the parking is free.

By: Nan Emouse

Nan Emouse — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:43:55 +0000

Dear Mr Muck. We don’t live in San Francisco. Therefore, we should not adopt their thieving ways.

By: Cloudnine

Cloudnine — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:28:22 +0000

Primarily why I rarely venture downtown for anything. If necessary I will park several blocks away and walk just to avoid paying for parking.

By: Werner

Werner — Wed, 29 May 2013 19:29:37 +0000

As quoted in the Statesman article, the city spokesman claimed that these proposed parking fee enforcement times are designed to benefit downtown businesses. A simple solution is to poll all the downtown businesses which stay open after 6pm and see if they support extending the parking fee hours or not. This would not require a “study,” two hours of phone calls would complete all the research needed. I would venture to speculate that most businesses would not support it. But I doubt that will change the city’s effort for whatever it is they are attempting to accomplish.

By: Muck Raker

Muck Raker — Wed, 29 May 2013 16:30:47 +0000

Well, it could be worse. Had lunch in San Francisco a week ago Monday. Four hours on-street metered parking in the financial district – $18.25. Enforced 24/7.

EDITOR NOTE–FYI, the meter in the photo is in S.F.

By: dog

dog — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:39:22 +0000

This is a great opportunity for other parts of Boise to promote business services and restaurants. I avoid downtown unless I’m on my bike. Let the downtown business know you are going to move on to greener pastures if the city adopts this new parking idea.

By: grumpy ole man

grumpy ole man — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:19:42 +0000

Some things just make my head hurt, and the struggle to figure out ordinances such as this is one of them. Thurber’s famous little girl who said that the book she read told her “more about penguins that she wanted to know” is sort of the opposite of trying to make sense of reading such convoluted prose as this/these. Whatever happened to the movement to write law in “plain English”?

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:56:29 +0000

And if you leave time/money on the meter, it knows when you drive away and erases it, so nobody can use your abandoned time and the city gets paid twice.

By: Eastern

Eastern — Wed, 29 May 2013 01:56:09 +0000

Or ride your bike into town.
Choice of parking in one of the ridiculous city provided bike racks or just tie up on a tree or meter pole next to your destination.