After just returning home from another frustrating visit to our wonderful library I have to comment on the general lack of parking downtown and the municipal hall hypocrisy.
If our municipal council is so concerned about a climate emergency — they must be they passed a motion after all — why do they continue to provide dedicated parking to council and senior staff at the municipal hall?
All of the vehicles observed parked today in that parking lot are those evil carbon emitting, climate-killing, and iceberg melting, internal combustion engine types.
Is this simply a case of ‘do as we say and not as we do’?
Or are the municipal staff more important and therefore entitled to a dedicated parking lot and not the lowly public?
Dedicated parking is something out of the 1960s and most municipalities have done away with this free staff benefit.
Perhaps council and staff would be more proactive and sympathetic to the general lack of parking downtown if they had to search for parking as the public has too?
Turning this parking lot into a short term public parking lot would certainly help the lack of parking space for the public that is available for use downtown and assist the businesses downtown to keep their customers.
Glenn Stainton
Squamish
