Please restore Humboldt parking spaces

Jan 31, 2026
Jan 31, 2026
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Editor,

For the first time in my life, I just wrote to city officials.

(2) comments

joebob91 Jan 31, 2026 8:53am

Parking was challenging at night (not all day) prior to the installation of the bike lanes. The City has said that occupancy levels are now similar. All of these problems have been in place for the last decade. There are 4,000 parking spaces in N. Central; installing parking in front of 50 homes (that all have driveways and garages) won't move the needle.

Meanwhile, Humboldt is the only north/south bike lane in the City. There is no alternative if the bike lanes are removed.

easygerd Jan 31, 2026 9:35am

Streets are Made for Transportation not Private Car Storage.

Interestingly the car-crowd that favors "car storage" keeps invoking "Transportation Equity".

But "Transportation Equity" isn't about poor people with cars it's about the 30-40% of people that cannot drive, shouldn't drive, can't afford a car, or simply don't have easy access to a car.

The moment you have easy access to a car you graduated out of "Transportation Equity".

But the calls for "equity" aren't coming from the people that need it, they seem to becoming from car collectors that store their private vehicles on public property.

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