WILL NEW FAIRFIELD GET PARKING METERS? NEW REVENUE, WHY NOT!

This subtle invention has long gone unnoticed in New Fairfield.  We have entered into the 'greening of New Fairfield' with the new side walks to where?  Parking meters are a natural complement and method of paying for the maintenance and up keep of the new asphalt side walks.  How long will it be?  I'm still not certain why we need side walks without the "Walk and Don't Walk traffic signs at our Stop Lights. Could it be this was an over-sight with regard to Public Safety?  With right turn on red the crossing of the high ways could present some danger to those walking with walkers or canes and worse with iPods, Droids or iPhone with ear buds.  We need some new regulations and laws here to protect our walking public.


TUESDAY, JULY 13: PARKING METERS

Profile America -- Tuesday, July 13th.  One of our least favorite inventions first appeared in Oklahoma City this week in 1935.  It's the one that must be fed coins, under threat of either fines or towing.  What else, but the parking meter?  Just as today, local governments were then straining to fund the roads and facilities needed to handle the dramatically increasing number of cars. Parking meters quickly spread to towns and cities across the nation and even created a new kind of job -- the meter reader.  At the same time, pay parking lots and garages began to spring up.  Now a major business, there are more than 16,000 commercial parking facilities in the U.S., which take in more than $7 billion a year in parking fees.  You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.  

Sources:  www.history.com