Last Wednesday or Thursday, the one kiosk for both sides of the 400 block of Warren was installed near the midpoint of the odd side of the block. It is situated adjacent to the middle of a parking space, waiting to be hit by a car door or a human head. Mon Dieu!
Without mayor Ferris's support for "micromobility" as a "valuable addition to our community," these two children may not have been able to ride rented electric scooters on Saturday morning on the wrong side of State Street from 6th to 7th without helmets protecting their brains. For most people, the rented scooters are regarded as mere playthings, and traffic laws, stop signs and red lights are to be ignored. Just the "valuable addition to our community" that we need right now.
I don't know how Hudson survived without one for so long, but at long last there is a lovely ten-thousand-dollar parking kiosk in front of 735 Columbia Street waiting to take your quarters or credit card. No, I swear, there is a kiosk there on the sidewalk! I wouldn't lie to you!
More importantly, perhaps, is the following question: As difficult as it is to imagine, could HPD Parking Captain David Miller be a slob on par with DPW Superintendent Rob Perry?
Yesterday at 12:45 pm, with the farmers market winding down and the Pride Parade soon to begin, just 3 of the 120 parking spaces in the City Hall parking lot were unoccupied. All 3 of them were handicap only spaces.
Late yesterday afternoon, no more than 4 hours after I had called HPD about the several downed temporary orange NO PARKING signs on North 7th Street that had been blown over in the strong winds, they were gone. Removed. Reconsidered. Repurposed. By DPW, no doubt, who had to return to the scene.
Last Wednesday or Thursday, the one kiosk for both sides of the 400 block of Warren was installed near the midpoint of the odd side of t...
