Editorial: Lenox Parking

One sure way to turn-off tourists and their families is to issue a parking ticket without a series of posted warning signs of limited parking to two hours.

If Lenox is a tourist town, then it should cater to the visitor, who in many respects comes to town to spend their money for goods and services. They don’t come to town for a half or full day. Nor do they come to be treated less than our own citizens. They come for the excitement and enjoyment of the arts, its fine dining and quaint historic district.

If the Selectmen’s goal was to push the local merchants and their employees into public parking lots – they failed on the advent of no notice.

Remember the words of the Revolutionary War: “No taxation without representation.”

Here in Lenox it is “no ticketing without warning signs.”

Any judge, who is in agreement with the Selectmen’s edict of no signage, does not understand the spirit or the makeup the law.

As to the local businessman, he’ll get the message loud and clear, when the cash register no longer rings up a sale.

Again, the proof is in the pudding: The Selectmen led with their feet and not their minds for trying to create a better traffic policy in the historic district.

Next time, devise a plan before you send the junior cops out with $10 tickets for overtime parking violations.

Posted by George C. Jordan III on August 8, 2013. Filed under Editorials,Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry