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Porter Gladstone III May 19, 2013 at 04:09 pm
I read that Jim Cameron --the darien native and commuter rail chair is asking , to accommodate…Read More displaced train riders--that parking rules be suspended so that these people have a place to park.
TERRIBLE IDEA. Come on Jim!!
At all of these parking lots there are never more than a handful of empty spots. All you are going to accomplish by waiving the parking rules is to allow people from (fill in the blank) to park in a spot paid for by a person who lives in (fill in the blank.) So people who commute after 745am will have no where to park. Solving nothing except transferring the problem from one person to the next.
Jim--think this through. It's not like , for example, Noroton Heights has an extra 200 spots that go idle.
Porter Gladstone III May 20, 2013 at 02:45 am
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Sorry then you miss the point-while at the same time confimring the point.
You say that…Read More 'everything has gone up--in the last 20 years (but according to your article it was 1997 so you are a few years off and lots of things are cheaper now than in 1997--but not labor --not Connecticut road labor or police (see the 56% raise they received )and then you realize why gas taxes havent kept pace. But in any event your studies are not comprehensive. They talk about the federal gas tax, but as you know connecticut lobs on its own gas tax.It includes costs of police supervision, but doesnt account for police revenues. In fact it says that road expenses aremade up through property taxes etc. Of course--in Ridgefield or Fairfield or whereever, to plow the roads on a local level, the money comes from property taxes to pay the employees. This is not a 'subsidy' to drivers. Its a public service that serves anyone who uses a road (bikers, walkers, school buses etc) . Additionally if you read the article a portion ofthe federal gasoline tax pays for public transportation-- so there is that true subsidy.
and 'unions exist because employers used to takeadvantage.' Come on. When will that argument stop?
When road crews make 12 times the wage of private citizens, Im not interested in their need in 1915. They were needed in 1915 not now--so what is the point? we dont get polio shots either --their usefulness has left....
Leslie Yager (Editor) May 17, 2013 at 08:52 pm
this sounds like so much fun. Never heard MERLIN before, but I love beach house cafe!!! And this is…Read More a great cause.
Darrell Imhoff May 19, 2013 at 10:22 am
Hey Jim Eastwood. You should change your name to Jim Hardwood. That's what seems to happen whenever…Read More you talk about cops and firemen. You get the vapors. Oh,how I love those big strong men in uniform!
tlkensington May 19, 2013 at 08:59 am
Which means the cops did a cop job of standing around and looking at an accident. Something that…Read More could have been done with a fraction of man power.
Leslie Yager (Editor) May 17, 2013 at 09:28 am
Should be a beautiful weekend for house hunting! Thanks for these open house listings, Elaine!
Leslie Yager (Editor) May 17, 2013 at 07:56 am
I had no idea there is a farm stand at So No Marketplace. You can shop, have lunch and buy all your…Read More veggies and such. Pretty cool.
Parking Availability at Darien RR Stations
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