Letters To The Glendale News-Press Getting Dumber

Ugh.

An easy meter is worth the dime

What an idiotic, stupid idea, the new parking meters on Brand Boulevard (“Frenzied feeding of meters,” Dec. 6). I asked a young man to help me.

He could not figure it out, then said, “Do your shopping in Burbank, like I do. They have the coin-operated meters.”

Why weren’t the regular coin meters installed? Everyone knows how to drop a coin.

MAURINE BLAKELY

Glendale

I could rant about the letters published in Glendale News-Press for a long time, but let's just take a look at this one. The premise of this letter is that someone is apparently competent to drive a 4,000 pound automobile from Glendale to Burbank but is completely baffled by the parking meters on Brand Boulevard. Really?

Parking Meters Coming To Brand

Yes, parking meters are coming to Brand. In addition to metering Brand, the city has increased amount of free parking time in city parking structures to 90 minutes and reduced the price of a monthly parking pass in the city structures. The goal of the meters is to increase the availability of spots for customers of businesses on Brand. Currently employees of nearby businesses often take up the spots on Brand in defiance of the current two hour parking limit, which is difficult to enforce.

Here are the city structures that now have 90 minute free parking:

• 120 South Maryland Avenue
• 115 North Maryland Avenue
• 222 North Orange Street