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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Yeah it just doesn't make sense to me that people would be afraid to pedestrianize that type of street or use the argument of it damaging business. I mean, I just can't imagine myself thinking "Hey, I want to get something at, say, the World Tea House, so I'm going to get into the car and park directly on Argyle St while I do my shopping." I mean, the chances of finding on-street parking downtown are kind of hit and miss anyway let alone on the exact specific street as a store you want to visit.
When I go downtown with the car, I will normally either park at the library or Queen St. Sobeys, (I hate that they have surface lots there but my not using them won't make them disappear) and walk to my final destination. Sometimes I may see if there's on street parking on Summer St. or Sackville St beside the garden. I've even parked at Quinpool Superstore and walked down depending on if I'm in a hurry or it's a casual visit. But I would never count on parking on a specific downtown street.
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Very much agreed. Who thinks they're actually going to park here?
If I'm driving downtown, and not walking, I'll often park in the underground parking lot for Pete's Frootique. It's the perfect location; and it's also pretty easy to spend $20 at Pete's to make it free. On Sundays it's also free.
The problem until now, is that there wasn't even this option (underground parking) around the city, like you do in, say, Toronto where there are pretty much a new buildings on every second block with underground parking. So people just complain about "no parking". I think as more of these big developments around here come online, street parking becomes less of an issue because each development has an underground parking lot that comes with it, that the public can use. It won't be free, but it'll be convenient.
Eventually the cheap ass Halifax attitude that people are "entitled" to free parking, like the world is a big strip mall, will change. People will make use of these convenient underground parking lots, like they do in every other city, and shut up about no parking. And then there will be less moaning about having a pedestrian street like this.
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