KCRag Forum

KCPowercat wrote: Friends of mine drove down to p&l on saturday night, prepaid their 2 bucks and proceeded to drink enough where they thought it would be smart to take a cab....returned yesterday to retrieve their car and were told since they didn't have a ticket it would be 15 bucks to get out.  My friend said they did it to the car in front of them as well.

Not a smart move on cordish part....idioitic and socially irresponsible.

KCPowercat wrote: Yeah next time they are said they are parking by me and walking with me.

scooterj wrote: Jeeeeeeeeeez!!!!

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking ... 78431.html

The parking restrictions are particularly disturbing.   Wouldn't it make more sense to stage all those buses in any of the giant seas of surface parking lots rather than hurting all the small business in that huge area?

scooterj wrote: Shouldn't The Lord be providing security?

aknowledgeableperson wrote: You forget that there is a devil out there.

scooterj wrote: The city is really screwing over its own citizens on this parking scheme.    They've set it up to double as a cash grab.     The "emergency no parking" signs are not the large ones normally used.   They are very small, the same size and style as normal parking signs, and instead of being positioned prominently are simply fastened to the existing parking sign poles so that they blend in.   People who routinely park downtown would never notice them at all.

I saw a block of the restricted zone for an hour or so last night from a window and what I wsaw was parking control officers hiding in alleys and side lots.    When anyone pulled up and parked, as soon as that unlucky driver stepped into a business or walked around the corner, the officer would run out, quickly write a ticket, then run back into hiding.   It was ridiculous.  

According to someone I know who was working on a restricted block last night, no bus ever showed up on her block at all yet several of her customers were ticketed.   Her business was given no advance notice of this by the city, she found out only when someone complained about getting a ticket and then she started getting phone calls asking how to get there because it was a one-way street and the streets leading into it from the correct direction were closed.

chrizow wrote: i encountered the "emergency no parking" signs yesterday on grand near thai paradise.  they were definitely visible, if you were looking, though they were weirdly small.  they were white with red text.  a parking cop walked into thai paradise and shouted across the room to the owner that "you better tell your customers that we're gonna start towing cars at 5pm!!!!"

staubio wrote: I've heard reports to the contrary: that the signs were changed several days in advance and that they are red and highly visible. I don't believe that the city would be sabotaging people like that.