{"id":4259,"date":"2013-12-19T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2013-12-19T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:49:31","slug":"parking-meters-are-they-a-money-making-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4259","title":{"rendered":"Parking meters: Are they a money-making scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for it.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo City Council members have begun talking openly about installing parking meters downtown. It&#8217;s a plan to provide a comprehensive parking plan for when the downtown district is bustling with activity once again. I am confident that day will arrive &#8230; although it&#8217;s estimated time of arrival is a seriously open question.<\/p>\n<p>Parking meters? In conjunction with the parking garage the city plans to erect?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here is what I anticipate &#8212; maybe. I anticipate the few and the loud who&#8217;ve griped about the red-light cameras being nothing more than a money-making scam for the city are going to yammer even more loudly about the installation of parking meters.<\/p>\n<p>Is that possible? Well, in this day and time &#8212; and in the climate involving some of the municipal malcontents scattered around the city, just about anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>I have no particular gripe against parking meters. They do raise significant revenue for cities that deploy them. I would recommend the city dedicate whatever money it doesn&#8217;t pay the vendors to downtown revitalization, which I figure is going to be an on-going process.<\/p>\n<p>One key element the city will have to develop is a pricing structure that doesn&#8217;t make parking on the street in front of your favorite watering hole or restaurant cost-prohibitive. Amarillo has plenty of models to follow on that one.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know yet where this discussion will go. <\/p>\n<p>City Hall perhaps should get ready for the gripes that will come its way. The malcontents are out there and they&#8217;re likely just now clearing their throats.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for it. Amarillo City Council members have begun talking openly about installing parking meters downtown. It&#8217;s a plan to provide a comprehensive parking plan for when the downtown district is bustling with activity once again. I am confident that day will arrive &#8230; although it&#8217;s estimated time of arrival is a seriously open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parking meters: Are they a money-making scheme?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,297,3499],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-amarillo-downtown-plan","tag-parking-meters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}