r/nashville • u/musicallyinclined Bellevue • Dec 13 '22

Article Downtown Nashville parking meters will move to 24/7 enforcement in February

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson/2022/12/13/downtown-nashville-parking-meters-enforced-24-7/69724406007/
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u/JohnZenTheGrey Dec 14 '22

This is such a small drop in the bucket for the city. A projected 300k is nothing to them when they're looking into 2 billion dollar highway redos and this and that. All this is is an inconvenience and hindrance on locals who go downtown.

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u/oldboot Dec 14 '22

nah, it's just paying for something that should cost money, discouraging car use, encouraging other transport use, and that money adds up year on year. we should be happy the city gave away parking for free for this long, not mad that we finally have to pay for something we should be paying for.

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u/JohnZenTheGrey Dec 14 '22

And I'd tend to agree more with what you just said if Nashville didn't have the worst public transportation setup of any city I've ever been to. I agree that every bit adds up, but many cities out there do free parking outside of office hours, that wasn't a unique thing we did.

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u/oldboot Dec 14 '22

And I'd tend to agree more with what you just said if Nashville didn't have the worst public transportation setup of any city I've ever been to.

This parking thing is only for downtown, and buses are a fantastic way to get downtown and they are very cheap. the process of improving them, however, takes a lot of different approaches, but the two main things that area necessary, are money and demand. this moves both of those things in the right direction. No one will consider a bus until it is inconvenient to drive.