Effective this coming Saturday, May 7, downtown shoppers must pay the meter as they do on Monday through Friday.
Hopefully city leaders have considered the purposes of parking meters. Are they to produce revenue? Or are they to discourage persons who work downtown during weekdays from monopolizing street parking, thus discouraging shoppers?
Will weekend visitors be willing to spend a couple of dollars and suffer the inconvenience of meters for the privilege of shopping downtown when they can park without cost and hassle at any suburban shopping center or mall?
In part due to free parking on Saturdays, the Central Market and other businesses have thrived.
Charging for parking on Saturdays must have been abandoned for good reason. We believe putting impediments in the way of customers is not a good business practice.
Rick Gray hits another home run.
The lawmakers must not have had their “thinking caps” on…..another blunder.
Last I heard, the city will not ticket throughout the entire downtown area on Saturdays but only in certain areas, mostly on the north side of town.
EDITOR: Our report is based on the response of the Lancaster Police.