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[quote=Anonymous]Whenever I am in Old Town I see about as many correctly parked as wrongly parked.  Despite the lack of good places to park them.  A lot of the people complaining about them don't actually know how they are supposed to be parked - they can be next to a lamppost, not blocking the right of way, but if they are on the sidewalk "oh they are ugly, its clutter"

They are in fact no more ugly than parked cars.  Which are everywhere.   So then people shift back from "ugly" to "they block the sidewalk"  People who don't spend anytime dealing with improving sidewalks around the city, getting police to enforce against drivers who block crosswalks, etc.

People say its about the handicapped - where are these activists when the problem with pedestrians signals that are too short for a disable person cross the street comes up?  Where are they when visually impaired people fear crossing the speedways that afflict our city?

I am all for making the program work better. But most of the complainers are just people who hate the new, who hate the growth in tourism, and who have little interest in alternatives to cars.

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