RANT ABOUT PARKING
It’s cool to hear more people talking about the downtown St. Paul development. One thing that I think is interesting is the PARKING. The amount of it and how little it’s used. It’s not even enforced.
Like I don’t want to blow up my spot here, but I work on 7th street right by the Xcel, and I’ve parked on the street every day for my entire shift without paying. Ive been doing this since I learned to drive and misread the signs. I thought “4 hour limit” meant you only had to pay if you were staying more than 4 hours. I didn’t notice until like 2 years later. I had never gotten a ticket, so I kept doing what I was doing.
The only ticket I ever got was for parking somewhere that wasn’t a parking spot.
Is this on purpose to encourage people to visit?
Also it’s insane that we have so many $20 “event lots” when I’ve never had to park further than 7 blocks away from the Xcel. I think we should make these lots something else. We have skyways, tunnels, and sidewalks everywhere.
Minneapolis charges roughly the same for event parking, and I feel like they have a lot more infrastructure packed into their downtown event areas that make it more inconvenient to park on the street.
Specifically these 2 parking lots pictured. Burger Moes uses that space pretty often but those spaces could be used so much better to create a better downtown environment. It’s hard to imagine they’re more profitable sitting as $20 parking lots.
A park would be so fun to have behind Burger Moes but I doubt that would pay off.
What would you want them replaced them with?