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Friday, February 22, 2008
Parking Ban on Mt. Vernon Proceeds
The Morning Call reports (read it here) that the parking ban on Mt. Vernon near the HS is proceeding as supervisors voted to advertise the ban to the public.
The township claims that "many" students park on Mount Vernon Avenue. That seems like they are being vague just to try and justify their solution to a problem that does not exist. The reality is that over the 5 block span 5 or 6 students park their cars during school hours, while most residents are at work. They are parked legally and students should have the same rights as any other driver in the state. It seems outlandish for Upper Nazareth Township to spend hundreds, maybe thousands, of tax dollars alleviating a phantom problem when; once the school district completes the construction of a larger 200 car parking lot on Mitchell Avenue on the site where a smaller 100 car one existed for student parking until the initial stages of the middle school construction required the district to plow it away, there will be NO need for street parking. A less intrusive, and less expensive solution to their percieved issue would be to require parking permits to the very few students who park there for the next year until the Mitchell street lot can be used again.
To say that the street is not wide enough does not make sense. 1) I assume the township approved and probably built, the road 2)The streets that both I and my aunt live on are smaller streets and in Upper Nazareth Township and we can park there. 3) There is no other street in Upper Nazareth that does not allow any parking at all 4) In the 5 blocks of Mount Vernon there are a total of 15 homes with 6 cross streets. It is not a heavily used road.
If that parking ban does pass council, the students that can not get school parking permits yet should be STRONGLY encouraged to park on 5th street. Because if there are many more cars parked on 4th street it would create a dangerous situation with all the traffic going into and out of the High School. While 5th street is a dead end street with no through traffic and is much safer for everyone. The only reason we have not been parking there now is we were told that the neighbors complain. But student cars are only there when most people are at work, and students have the same rights to use the roads as anyone else. If a car is parked in a legal manner it should not matter what age the driver is. I also want to make everyone aware that the block of Mt. Vernon that most students had parked on has no houses.
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The township claims that "many" students park on Mount Vernon Avenue. That seems like they are being vague just to try and justify their solution to a problem that does not exist. The reality is that over the 5 block span 5 or 6 students park their cars during school hours, while most residents are at work. They are parked legally and students should have the same rights as any other driver in the state. It seems outlandish for Upper Nazareth Township to spend hundreds, maybe thousands, of tax dollars alleviating a phantom problem when; once the school district completes the construction of a larger 200 car parking lot on Mitchell Avenue on the site where a smaller 100 car one existed for student parking until the initial stages of the middle school construction required the district to plow it away, there will be NO need for street parking. A less intrusive, and less expensive solution to their percieved issue would be to require parking permits to the very few students who park there for the next year until the Mitchell street lot can be used again.
To say that the street is not wide enough does not make sense. 1) I assume the township approved and probably built, the road 2)The streets that both I and my aunt live on are smaller streets and in Upper Nazareth Township and we can park there. 3) There is no other street in Upper Nazareth that does not allow any parking at all 4) In the 5 blocks of Mount Vernon there are a total of 15 homes with 6 cross streets. It is not a heavily used road.
If that parking ban does pass council, the students that can not get school parking permits yet should be STRONGLY encouraged to park on 5th street. Because if there are many more cars parked on 4th street it would create a dangerous situation with all the traffic going into and out of the High School. While 5th street is a dead end street with no through traffic and is much safer for everyone. The only reason we have not been parking there now is we were told that the neighbors complain. But student cars are only there when most people are at work, and students have the same rights to use the roads as anyone else. If a car is parked in a legal manner it should not matter what age the driver is.
I also want to make everyone aware that the block of Mt. Vernon that most students had parked on has no houses.
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