Crackdown on Cary Street
From the Carytown Merchants Association:
Please be aware that the City of Richmond has informed the Carytown Merchant Association that they will begin enforcing the 2 hour parking limit on Cary Street beginning immediately.
I always took those signs at face value. Why now, city of Richmond?
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I’ve seen cars sit on 2nd street near the TD office for weeks without being moved. Wonder if this is just WOTB, or if it’s a city wide thing. They are practically nazis downtown by the Slip (my father was about 9 minutes late and got a ticket) so I wonder if they are starting to apply that elsewhere.
The VCU area has very strict parking enforcement. Not a semester went by without a ticket on my car.
This is good and bad. I’d hate to have people get tickets and never want to return to Carytown, but it could also create more parking and attract people.
I never even knew the limit was 2 hours on Cary St. Guess Parkwood and and the intersecting streets will have more cars on them now.
When I did a story on Carytown for a publication almost 15 years ago, I discovered with some surprise by talking to clerks, that every two hours, they had to go and move their cars.
My personal take is that the two hour l limit for Carytown is ridiculous, especially in the blocks around the Byrd. Most movies run about 97 movies, others 120.
This is a commercial district that needs all the help it can get, and the two hour limit is yet another hurdle the city institutes against its own better interests. This simply doesn’t make a lick of sense.
But, Carytown also has two, count’em, two parking decks at each end. I still run into people who don’t realize this is the case.
Not to mention the Cary Court lot and too many intersecting streets to name. Heck, the UR Satdium is a short walk and has plenty of parking.
On my way to work this week I saw my first ticketed car on Cary St. So do not take this as a threat.