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“a completely different model for funding parking” - 8th in a series on parking

Identifier: gadfly0017
Title: “a completely different model for funding parking” - 8th in a series on parking
Creator: Gallagher, Ed
Haines, Bruce
Date: 2018/09/21
Description: Letter to the Gadfly from Bruce Haines of Hotel Bethlehem; "Gadfly remarks tonight were spot on in confronting the Parking Authority about documenting public comments from the April meeting as well as tonight’s meeting. The fact that the Desman report was never finalized from its draft state with revisions based upon public input is equally as disturbing since the draft report contained numerous errors that were pointed out at that meeting & in other communications. This report & its recommendations are extremely biased & based on outdated thinking from a company that demonstrated their incompetence in the New Street garage study. Their model is that of generating data to justify new garage construction & parking meter rate increases. To justify the huge New Street garage, they had to reduce the parking study radius from 500 feet to 300 feet to get the answer they were charged to produce..."
Subject: Bethlehem, Parking, BPA, Serious Issues
Medium: blog post
Contributor: Gallagher, Ed
Haines, Bruce
Publisher: The Bethlehem Gadfly
Language: English