Parking Meter Change

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

According to signs posted in Davis Square:

Parking meters in Davis Square will be in effect until 8pm Monday-Saturday beginning July 1st.

Comments

[xuth.livejournal.com]

imho, it's not the expense that's the problem it's the fact that you can't just show up after work and park at a meter and stay there for the evening. Now if you show up before 6 you have to either feed the meter after a bit (which is illegal) or move your car, but either way you can't just spend an uninterupted evening in davis if you show up before 6:00.
While I don't drive to davis (I rarely drive for that matter), I think it's rather absurd to switch the meters like that (I think I'd have much preferred a rate hike).

[cos]

That's the other issue - the T stops running early enough that you can't spend an unbothered evening in the square if you take the T in, either. If you want to arrive in the early evening and have the option of just staying at whatever activity you want until you want to leave, you now either have to remember to go back to feed the meter, or you have to be forced to leave by midnight whether you want to or not.