UNC-Chapel Hill students living off-campus are fed up with on-campus parking, or should I say lack thereof. On any given weeknight, it is at least a 20-minute ordeal to try to find a parking spot near the library or campus in general. And as it gets colder, the fight for close parking spots can get […]
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Nighttime parking a nightmare
Posted by NancyDon on December 13, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/13/nighttime-parking-a-nightmare/
Feed the parking need
Don and I met a friend downtown for lunch yesterday, and as we drove along West Franklin Street, we passed several open parking spaces, but the meters had bags over them, usually an indication of a broken meter. We didn’t realize that these spaces were part of the new parking pay stations being installed, so […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on December 9, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/09/feed-the-parking-need/
Check-out lane at library
If you’re going to double the size of the public library, you had better double the amount of parking, right? As I circled the parking lot at the public library Monday at 11:30 a.m., I wondered what was going on – all the library’s 110 spaces were taken, and there were several vehicles prowling for […]
Posted by Don Evans on June 16, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/06/16/check-out-lane-at-library/
All quiet on the western front
Here’s some news: Parking lot #5 is full of cars. Not cranes or backhoes or bulldozers. No orange netting or even any signs heralding the day the lot will close forever. And we’re fast approaching June, the month construction was to begin on the 140 West Franklin condo high-rise. The lawyers among you will point […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on May 28, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/05/28/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/
Need lots of parking
After a sojourn downtown yesterday at lunch, I’m convinced that the longer 140 West Franklin remains Parking Lot #5, the better off we’ll be. I’d talked with Dwight Bassett, Chapel Hill’s economic development officer, about the two-hour tour of downtown he was leading beginning at 12:30 that afternoon to prepare the downtown planning team for […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 8, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/04/08/need-lots-of-parking/