Parking task force recommendations

[georgy.livejournal.com]

 As linked to in Rebekah Gewirtz's newsletter:

http://www.somervillema.gov/NewsDetail.cfm?instance_id=1481

Comments

[cos]

You seem to be dismissing some concerns by reinforcing them.

If Somerville scraps the current parking changes entirely, and then later comes up with a new plan to change parking restrictions on a few major streets, with clearly communicated, sensible reasons for doing so, that could work out.

The current process is irreparably tainted. Many of us absolutely do not trust the city on this. It's not the fault of the new parking task force, and even you admit that you had an impossible task. The result sucks. The city is making use of the fact that they started with something so bad that anything less can look "better" in comparison to the earlier fantasy. The fact that they put you in that position means that you, the parking task force, could do nothing to prevent that except to say "do nothing now, city, because you really fucked up. try again later."