Eliminating more parking spaces

The Miami Parking Authority and the towing companies are doing a brisk business this week. More parking has been taken away from the Center Grove and I'm not sure what the point is.

Cars were towed from in front of FedEx and the 24 Hour Fitness gym all day this week. As you see by the sign, there is no parking from 7 am to 4 pm. You can park there after that until 2 am, which is a joke, since there are not many places to go here in the Grove until 2 am, especially in that end of town, it's pitch dark at night. In other words, you can park when there is no reason to park, you're allowed to do that. 

So originally about a dozen spaces were removed for no apparent reason from Mary Street down to the entrance to the Mayfair Promenade, you know, where The Spillover is. Now another dozen or so spaces were removed on both sides of the street from there to Virginia Street. They are bus or loading zones. It's a lot of space for that. 

For awhile there, they were doing a brisk towing business at the other end on Main Highway. It's unconscionable. Parking should be added, not removed. 

So many of you hate the scooters and mopeds, but to be honest, that may be the only way left to get around town if you can't find car parking.

The towing and booting scam ended awhile back, so I guess they need to raise more revenue another way.

I wonder why Grove businesses don't approach the BID or Miami Parking Authority over this constant elimination of parking spaces, it affects their bottom lines. If people can't find parking, they drive off and go elsewhere, that's a fact. If people are ticketed or towed, the never come back. That's a fact. Not a very good business model.

If you get a parking ticket, you might want to consider the DoNotPay app, the Robin Hood of the internet, that will fight it for you, not sure, but they fight bureaucracy, so perhaps they'll fight the towing, too.