Enforcement can help with parking
While no one would dispute that parking is a serious problem in the downtown area, some of the proposed fixes would do more harm than good ("Parking problems studied," May 20).
Pay parking areas and valet parking would only serve to increase the congestion in free and/or non-valet areas.
One way to reduce the congestion would be more a more aggressive police presence in the downtown area. When the bicycle officers patrolled the Village regularly, they kept cars moving by ticketing violators and ordering the sit-'n'-waits (those annoying passive-aggressives who block everyone while waiting for a parking space) to move on.
