You just know you’ve got a winner on your hands when a newspaper story dated Tuesday, July 22, 2008, starts with the line
In her first neighborhood walk this year, Mayor Konstantina B. Lukes and a small group of officials took a walk on Highland Street yesterday…
Someone please tell me they’re working off the fiscal calendar.
This reads like nobody involved has been on Highland Street in the past 15 years. While mention is made of both the Boynton and the Sole Proprietor expanding their already huge parking lots and Councilor Haller is working on a valet plan involving Elm Park School the merchants involved agree on one thing:
But merchants and officials agreed the main sticking point for Highland Street is its lack of a municipal parking lot.
Is that a joke? 40 Highland St anyone? That lot could definitely fit more cars if it was re-lined and it’s 600ft away from the active part of Highland St. Really, I can’t be the only person who noticed that. But what’s with this sudden need for more parking? I’ve never once had difficulty parking in that area, am I doing it wrong?
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The issue is not the lack of parking; it’s the fact that people in our fine city don’t understand the concept of walking more then 50 ft. from their cars to their desired location. If people parked in that lot, they would have to walk AND cross some streets. How could anyone be expected to do that?
one thing I miss about Murray being our Mayor…the neighborhood walks-he would have been on his 50th by this time in the year.
Paulie, we called those neighborhood walks “bar crawls” back in the day.
There is a relationship between Lukes’ first walk on a public street and why folks can’t find parking prior to their face-stuffing: Uninspiring laziness
Most of the council, including the Mayor need to be taken out of office and sensible people installed
Valet parking on Highland St.?
The Boynton tears down another house for a parking lot so he can increase the number of customers he can squeeze in his restaurant. Waiting lines back up to the Elm Park school. Already bad service gets worse. Traffic congestion inundates the neighborhood. Traffic details are then implemented. Gridlock develops.
Result:
John earns an extra buck.
Haller stakes her claim as pro-business, but not mentioning she’s anti-neighborhood.
And the residents are screwed.
Great job all sides!
That’s really gonna make it a thriving economic district – one huge fucking parking lot!
Oh, and Lukes finally makes it out of City Hall!
Now that’s worth a headline.
What did we do to deserve those clowns?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see ‘em.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T., now!
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Late last night I heard the screen door slam.
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
yep, I agree. It isn’t that there’s a parking problem on the street; there’s a parking problem in our heads. We assume, in Worcester, that we should be able to park RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
And I can’t believe they’re knocking down another building in that neighborhood to pave it. It’s so wrong.
One couldn’t put it any better.
Bravo Paulie!
Well, I really think that the storeowners should all get together and hire a shuttle bus or a valet service which could be activated by proof of purchase. Then all the consumers could be ferried to 40 highland Street. Just kidding!
After John buys up all the trashy houses and turns them into parking lots, he’ll have to expand the Boynton to justify his investment. That means he’ll start expanding upwards, forcing out apartment residents and before ya know it, they’ll be no Highland Street. Man that guy – actually his father – really is capitalizing on WPI’s presence, before ya know St. Spridons will jump on the bandwagon.
Anyone notice, only a handful of Greek families live around Elm Park. The all moved out once the low life started moving in. The area is going downhill. It’ll be a certified cesspool in 3 to 5 years.