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Old 05-07-2015, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by looneycat View Post
the population here has at least doubled in the last 10 years as has the need for car/cart parking, no part of any parking lot is still remote, please point out the remote parts of the colony plaza parking area....it always seems full.....not so 7 or 8 years ago....meanwhile the number of bus trips has increased each trip requiring parking. this is an observation, not a complaint, it's just the way it is. I guess growing up in nyc, where you might have to walk a few blocks after you park was the norm, makes this a real non-issue for me...you will be in a vehicle to get to the bus no matter where it picks you up, what exactly is the problem? driving 2 more minutes ? you've got to be kidding me!
The problem is the buses are no longer allowed in to pickup residents for day trips. If the people going on bus trips at least ours did doubled up in the parking spaces they didn't take up a whole lot of space. The buses that operate in TV don't have the same price, size or number of buses. So you can't contract with them to do your trips period. You can't convince me there isn't some place that could be used period. And how would anyone know where the people from the parked vehicles are, shopping, at a movie, eating diner, listening to the music in the square etc. The buses didn't park in the square, the people who went on the trips didn't park in the squares, they parked on the outskirt of the parking lots around the squares or in a corner of a rec center parking lot. NEVER did I see one use the Colony Plaza parking lot.
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