Dan Rodricks Talks Ellicott City Parking
Discussion about parking in the Historic District reaches beyond Ellicott City.
Parking is free in the Historic District until Jan. 1, but a two-hour limit is still in effect and being enforced. Just ask WYPR's Midday host Dan Rodricks. In his column for the Baltimore Sun, Rodricks recounts a story told to him by Debbie Bakalich, who said she and her girlfriends have a tradition of shopping in Ellicott City during the holidays to support small businesses. On Nov. 24 - Small Business Saturday - Bakalich and her friends spent the day in Ellicott City, Rodricks wrote, each spending $200 to $300 during a full day of shopping. "... I get to my car and there is a $35 ticket for exceeding two hours. All of Ellicott City is small business, so don't you think, on Small Business Saturday, they would not give out tickets?" …
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john stephens
1:43 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
beauty of the new app ? no offense, but thats an oxymoron imo. Its crazy around here these days ; people running around trying to recall their spot number, only to discover the bags over the ticket receptacles. It seems to confuse people then, as there is now an inordinate number of people exceeding the two hours. Free is actually not free . Mr Franz Kafka would find humor; its utterly ulmanesque more ›