Government Considers Parking Meters for St. John’s
The government is considering the introduction of parking meters in St. John’s as part of efforts to ease chronic congestion in the capital.
Director General of Communications Maurice Merchant told reporters at the post-Cabinet media briefing that the St. John’s Development Corporation, working with the Transport Board, recently discussed the plan and is drafting a policy paper for Cabinet approval.
“We are all familiar with the problem of gaining parking in St. John’s,” Merchant said. “The St. John’s Development Corporation, in conjunction with the Transport Board, is looking at the implementation of parking meters in St. John’s.”
He said the proposal will determine where the meters are placed and how the revenue generated will be allocated.
If approved, the plan would mark a significant shift in how parking is managed in the city, where limited space and heavy traffic have long been a source of frustration for residents and visitors alike.
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AGAIN?!!!
And what about the parking lot alternative? Who will Police the Police?
OH LORD JOAN…YOU BEAT ME TO ITTTTT
Can the government burn in hell?
The long lonely unfinished car park at the East Bus Station must be completed and put into use before any talk about parking meters can be entertained. Persons who work within the city have no choice but to park and take up parking space for the entire duration of their work day and so park becomes almost impossible for someone just wanting to go into the bank for an hour or so. It is not unusual for persons to have to park all the way over at St John’s Street or St. George’s Street because of the unavailable of parking spaces closer within the corporate area. When the car park is complete and fully utilized, then they can offer long term parking to the bankers and shop owners and others and make all the streets from Nevis to Newgate Streets short term parking areas with the requisite meters.
Every supporter of this government is much more foolish than ghe government thinks of them.
The more you fool then is the more they ask you to fool them more.
The more you promise them is the more they look forward to more promises.
Have they not heard that a promise is comfort to a fool?
Long ago the government said it was going to implement self check in kiosk at the airport.
They have not been able to advance this one step forward.
One would want to believe that this would be much more urgent and significant than parking meters in town.
The only down side of the kiosks is that there will be no money to steal from its use.
However parking meters smells dollars.
So they are not interested in kiosks.
Their concentration has now shifted to parking meters.
Any and everything to rob the residents of a dollar is priority for this government.
I believe the time will come then this government will open three supermarkets.
They will be open to three different classes of people in the country, the wealthy, the middle class and the poor.
People will work and at the end of the month they go to the supermarket and get paid in groceries.
Thats the only way I can picture life based in the way this government is looking to take back every cent the peole have worked for.
What is the urgency of the parking meters?
Why aren’t they interested in completing the car park?
Oh no!
It will be resurrected when elections is in the air again.
Isn’t that what they have done over the past three elections?
However to make fast money they will dry up Country Pond.
What a set of dangerous animals!!!!
Did they really pray on National Day of Prayer??????
HYPOCRITES!!!!!!!!
SMMFH… Hey this govt just full of faeces. Wah happen to the parking lot, are you na think that will free up ton a parking spaces in town??? All dem good fa a fa come up with ways to get money from the people instead of coming up with ways to make things easier in this country. I swear the people in this country suffer from Stockholm and.it shows from all the bullshit you hear happening around here and they just go along. Just another day for creative enrichment and you na go see weh de money gone
How about finishing the unfinished car park they said they would finish? Not a use we can get out of it. They run the man that was selling cane close to it and they fence it off so nobody can park close either.
I bet you they will find police officers to police those meters, but they cannot find police to patrol the city to deter all these break ins from happening.. 😂
Yes Gatson, tax the hell out of them..come for all their money, that’s what they deserve by electing you as finance minister, because we all know you are no PM..your soul purpose is to keep your cronies rich and the poor in their place, poorer.
The money grabber is at it again.. 😂.
Am in agreement with Audley Phillip. Will be too harsh on city workers to pay for whole day parking at meters. Finish car park, let city workers park there at day or month rates which would cost them less than meters, and free up street parking where persons can just pay a dollar or 2 to just go in a bank or store for a 20 minutes
So our problem is chronic traffic congestion in capital and our solution is to put parking meters. I am not sure if the solution directly solves the problem, since the congestion is caused by persons driving into the capital.
Why does persons drive into the capital? I can think of a few things: lack of proper public transportation, lack of parking on the outskirt of the capital, security concerns of persons parking their vehicles too far, etc.
Some softer factor includes the need for persons to show up in person to do business that in todays world, could be done online. Another soft factor I can think about is the service level of some business and government entities. I have not heard of any bank in Antigua that will offer you compensation if you have waited more than let’s say 10 minutes in line. Imagine a bank card that could be mailed to your known address and then activated online or via an app but today everyone must go to the bank and wait sometimes over an hour to collect and PIN a card.
I believe we need to start thinking on a broader perspective to solve our issues.
@ JBF,
Our Prime Minister goes to the UN and other global and regional forums to lecture the world of climate change and global warming, when the basic functioning of St Johns have not gone beyond colonial times.
If one look at the reason why people are in St. John’s; Filthy percent of the people present in StJohns should not need to be there.
If Fadton was truly a leader he would have transformed St. Johns rather than running around with hat in hand slwsgs begging for groom.