Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Parking "Insanity"

There are plenty of blocks around that area that don't require parking permits. Free parking all the time.

Now my daughter is with us for the summer and she can’t get a parking permit because she has New Jersey tags. Frankly, she doesn’t want to go through all the red tape that I did, especially since she’ll be going to Maryland for school in the fall. She can buy a temporary permit for a month — only a month. We would gladly pay for her to be able to park within a few blocks for the summer. She currently has her car in her Dad’s driveway in New Jersey. I was hoping that she could get to work via public transit but the site is in an iffy area where we don’t want her walking to and from transit. This is a huge pain in the ass. We will have to drive her to and from work except for one month of the summer. Something has gotta give. Even the parking lot near us, between 12th and Passyunk, is by permit only.

Why not a lot for lease?

Also, pro tip: the Acme supermarket lot is widely understand to be the "free municipal lot for people with Jersey plates." They never tow, no matter what the signs say.