Comments on: Park Free Thursdays Approved By Village Board

By: JC Brotherhood

JC Brotherhood — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:42:42 +0000

Good luck finding an open minded person amidst Nyacks Mobocracy Richard.
Same old lame old thinking will not move Nyack forward I am afraid. And, when we finally do build this panacea in cement it too will be mostly empty, like the stores with nothing to offer.

By: Richard Kavesh

Richard Kavesh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:50:30 +0000

Our parking consultant, Mr. Georges Jacquemart, would undoubtedly agree with John’s first two paragraphs — and maybe even the third!

Georges (whose firm, BFJ, was paid $35K to undertake our recent parking study) would surely agree with the Board’s first vote on Thursday (he proposed the idea) and disagree with the final outcome.

Whatever one’s opinion of this program, the fact is that it is scheduled to expire at the end of December.

Before this program is renewed, modified, etc., the board should invite Mr. Jacquemart back to Nyack for a one-night open forum whose focus, I would suggest, would be to discuss the pros and cons of variously suggested parking management techniques to stimulate business during these tough economic times.

Mr. Jacquemart knows Nyack very well and open-minded people could all learn a lot from him.

By: johngromada

johngromada — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:04:48 +0000

I just don’t think people are going to say to themselves “gee there’s free parking in Nyack tonight- let’s go there! We can save ourselves 2 bucks!”

More likely the thinking will be: “it’s that free parking night in Nyack – that means we might have to park a little further away because there won’t be any available spots on Broadway”.

Maybe if all the bars gave away a drink free on Thursday – now THAT would attract people in to the village!