Double header on Heck. By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff. Sunday, July 2, 2017 © In the foreground is a motorized chair for the infirm. A third neighbor liked the ideas so much, he put out two garbage pails to save a space, and a couple of hours later, the space was there for his girlfriend returning from work as a hospital nurse. The town was gridlocked, even with the new diagonal parking. But three spaces were blocked on this single block.
Who wants to pay high taxes for this? Getting fed up yet.? Ready to move to California? Save our town!
OG residents need to demand immediate relief: permit parking one space for each house. And a lifestyle change with reduced Township permission for massive events (flea markets, craft markets, car shows/street closures) and demands that all remaining large events provide out of town parking. And then build a wall to cutdown on freeload parkers who want to go to Asbury Parking mess.
Is it any wonder that Grovers have to resort to the above measures?
It is a disgrace that we can’t find parking in our town. Blogfinger encourages everyone to buy a cone and save a space. Also hang a sign in your window asking for permit parking. We hope to have a design for you next week. Just print in on your home printer and show your true colors.
AL JOLSON
Addendum from “Around Town with Jean.”
Jean Bredin. 7/2/17 © Ocean Grove.
There is so much scarcity in parking spaces in OG, that I was taken back some coming upon this mysterious structure on Mt. Hermon Way.
I am sure it has a logical purpose. An extra bedroom for a last minute guest…a cover for smelly garbage cans,…maybe a compost heap…..or just nothing more than a deluxe parking spot saver.
Editor’s note: Maybe a cover for a motorcycle. (see comments below)
The entire OGHOA parking committee should resign immediately. They are a bunch of gutless weenies. We need some OG radical game changers who will make some demands on that Neptune crowd of takers—never givers.
Praise the Lord, our parking problems are over in the Grove. With the new 18 parking spots created by the Township, there is now more than enough parking for everyone. Bravo to the Township Planner and the OGHOA. A job well done. Now the Township can open up the flood gates and permit an unlimited amount of condos with the parking problem in OG finally solved. There wasn’t a single car parked beyond a stop sign or in a fire zone this weekend. Who knew that it would only take 18 extra parking spaces.
Kevin Chambers
Parking chalenges have been a part of our ownership in OG for years now, and as we see these space saving devices, I think of the friend who visits us from NYC a few times during the summer. They rent a van that accommodates their heavy duty motorized wheel chair and my anxiety level for their parking close to our place increases as the clock ticks and as the cars cruise around looking for a free space.
We tried the cone method once, only to have a neighbor angrily remove the cone and park their family car in the space. They were right, of course. There is family down the block that commandeers about four or more spaces; nothing illegal about it I’m sure, but the rituals that they engage in to assure their spots are a survival tactic, and at the end of the day these dances are almost comic.
It is all almost entertaining, as long as you have a spot occupied well before the weekend and dare not go out for additional groceries during a holiday weekend.
Just this morning, I spotted a family of visitors shoehorning their way into a much too small spot in front of my car, leaving only five inches between our vehicle and theirs—a space much too small.. So it goes in Ocean Grove.
OG is sandwiched in between two municipalities that both have paid parking. Permit parking for residents along certain streets can be the answer for us.
But fear not; we should ease up a few days after Labor Day this year, and certainly in the dead of winter when there is enough parking to follow the snow storm instructions.
Editor’s note: Jesse wants to debate the fine points of permit parking, such as how condo owners might be treated, but now we are in the idea phase of what to do about parking congestion in the Grove. If the idea gets to the point of analysis by consultants, that is when those fine points would be considered. —Paul
So, does the motorcyclist drive away leaving a permanent garage in place?
That would be the ultimate scam for holding a parking place. It should be illegal, but it is probably no worse than leaving a car warehoused on our streets.
Someone should peak under that skirt once in a while.
That bubble is a motorcycle cover. Ive seen it when it was off
Ref: motorized scooter parked
Don’t space holders have to be “registered and insured vehicles?”
Editor’s note: That is a motorized wheel chair. The space was being held for a very elderly woman who was coming to visit the family in that house.
Too many cars
Too many people
Pray to the church
The one with the steeple
Gotta move
Or get in the groove