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Flashing lights gather on the Main Avenue side of Firemen’s Park. Tuesday Feb 1, 2022 at about 6:00 pm.

Paul Goldfinger,  Editor Blogfinger.net

It was late afternoon on Tuesday Feb 1 near Main Avenue, Firemen’s Park and Mt. Hermon Way.  The snow situation was messy, but everyone was parked by following the snow sign directions.

Theoretically, the side where everyone was parked should have freed up the “no parking” side for cleaning.   But the plowing on that vacated side was not good enough to make for easy parking.

This is the messy side of the street where parked cars were supposed to be moved to. This car was in the hatched area. Was that violation OK today? Blogfinger photo. 2/1/22. And some parked too close to stop signs. Would that be enforced today? And how about the shoveling ordinance famously sponsored by the Groaners–with a fine. Was that enforced?

The north  side of Mt. Hermon is where the cars were supposed to move to. But that side was not in good shape for parking. Blogfinger photo. 2/1/22

This is the side (south) of Mt. Hermon which was to be vacated. But the warnings and directions were chaotic. 2/1/22 Blogfinger photo

Ocean Grove.  Tuesday late afternoon.

Paul Goldfinger, Editor  Blogfinger.net  2/2/22  (lots of twos for one day..   2 B or not 2 B)

Late in the afternoon, some of us heard a rumor that we all would have to move our cars to the other side of our streets   (except Main)  ie to the side with the “no snow parking” signs.

Then, at about 6 pm, there was a gathering of vehicles with flashing lights on the Main Avenue side of the park.  At that time an email from Neptune appeared, but not many received it.  It verified that we had to move our cars to the side of the street with the snow signs.   It asked us to get it done, preferably after 9 pm

Meanwhile a neighbor called the Mother Ship and spoke to several people about the situation , and there was, according to him, confusion with their responses.

So two of us moved our cars as requested, but it wasn’t easy because that side of the street was ill prepared.  Then a “traffic” police car came by and verified the instructions and said we could move the cars now—6:30 pm. She also said that there would  be no towing and no tickets.

A woman came by on Mt. Hermon, happy to find an easy space to get into–but, not so fast!    She was on the wrong side.  I had to tell her the bad news—she was not happy now as she moved her car across the street

It seemed like we finally had a handle on the situation, and soon it turned dark, and as many of us were relaxing at home, a police car rode slowly down Delaware and onto Mt. Hermon, flashing lights ablaze, and a loudspeaker roaring into the night air, “Move your cars off this street, do not park here, or you will be towed or ticketed.” The car kept moving, not stopping to see if anyone had any questions.  If he had stopped near my house I would have spoken to him about the discrepancies.

As far as I could see, no one was going to obey those abrupt, loud, and alarming demands.

We wound up with a situation on Mt. Hermon where there were cars on both sides.  It was almost comical.

And, by the way, a well kept secret:  no recycling pickup until Saturday.

Who is responsible for this chaos?   They should be transferred to another job, one less empowered to make unreasonable and confusing short-notice  demands on citizens.

And, you can go to the Neptune Township web site and sign up for their email blasts.  Neptunetownship.org

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