The two "temporary" (there's that word again!) A-frame signs that we've been so fortunate to have grace the northwest corner of 6th & Warren 24/7 for the past several months are associated with two businesses at the complex three blocks to the north. Yesterday's wind was not nice to those signs, even the still-standing metal one that weighs at least 40 pounds. Upright or not, the signs are a clear code violation.
According to the automated email response I got ten days ago from the Hudson Parking Bureau (with no personal name associated with it), today should be the day that the "temporary" closure of the Hudson Police Department's new Parking Bureau ends. (They're working out the kinks!) The apparently not-so-important bureau was closed all 5 days last week, plus the previous Friday, with the vacation possibly beginning the day before, on Thursday the 17th. (Someone was there on Wednesday the 16th.) The sign that has been on the window of the bureau's office for the past 10 or 11 days does not give any indication as to why the offices was closed or when it might reopen. Who the heck is in charge over there? Our four police detectives?
It happened within 6 or 7 weeks of Galvan's contractor creating the new sidewalks surrounding their hotel project at 4th & Warren and letting us little people walk on them. It happened within 25 days of HUDseen writing about the obscenely dangerous situation at the northern end of our new sidewalk on 4th Street. And it happened within 3 days of an email from me to mayor Ferris asking why the end of that sidewalk was still such a dangerous obscenity available for anyone to fall off of after so many weeks. "It" is the dumbest shit imaginable. (If I were to print Ferris' email reply to me, you might think I had made it up. Maybe another day if I have time.)
If, like me, you've been wondering who is supervising the city's ambitious new paid parking system since HPD flipped the switch early this year, there's no need to wonder anymore. Just as I assumed all along, the person who we are all counting on to make the parking system a smashing long-term success is the second-in-command at HPD, Captain David Miller, the same fella I've been somewhat facetiously referring to lately as Parking Captain (or PC) Miller. I'm afraid it's not a joke anymore. But, really, in the grand scheme, it is a joke. It's got to be!
Tiff, Gary, and the gang at the PWB require a 9-inch cliff minimum before they act.
Of course you can! And then what? The parents sue the City of Hudson and Galvan? Sure, why not!
Depending on what street your car commits the heinous crime of being in the way of the DPW street sweeper early in the morning, HPD will issue you and your car one of two overnight parking tickets. On State, Warren, Allen, and many north-south streets where there are no posted overnight parking rules, HPD officers issue $15 WRONG SIDE PARKING tickets. (No signs = $15.) However, on streets such as Prospect (see pictures), Washington, Union, and others with posted special overnight parking rules that typically don't apply every night of the week (referred to as, I believe, local street rules), HPD officers issue $25 NO PARKING ZONE tickets. (Yes signs = $25.) Even though your car is parked on the "wrong side," you will not be issued a $15 WRONG SIDE PARKING ticket where local street rules apply. You've committed the same crime of parking on the wrong side of the street, but a different ticket with a higher fee applies. And to add the confusion, if HPD finds that someone has parked their car during the day or night alongside a yellow curb and/or in front of a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, they issue the same $25 NO PARKING ZONE ticket. Different crime, but same ticket and same fee. This makes all the sense in the world, doesn't it?
The two " temporary " (there's that word again!) A-frame signs that we've been so fortunate to have grace the northwest co...
