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Sunday, March 31, 2019

$5 Hourly Rate For Inlet Parking Lot On Fourth Of July Approved; Flat Rate From Previous Years Abandoned

OCEAN CITY — After a significant drop-off in Inlet lot parking revenue on the Fourth of July last summer, resort officials this week tweaked the formula with an increased hourly rate on the popular holiday.

For several years, the Town of Ocean City charged a flat rate to park on the Inlet lot on the Fourth of July to, among other things, alleviate the congestion often associated with hundreds of vehicles leaving at the same time and paying before leaving at the exit booths. For example, for years the July 4 Inlet lot rates were set on a graduated scale including a $50 fee for cars entering the lot between 6 a.m. and noon, a $30 rate for cars entering the lot between noon and 3 p.m. and a $20 rate for vehicles entering the lot after 3 p.m.

In the last year of the sliding flat rate system, the Inlet lot grossed nearly $83,000 on the Fourth of July alone. Last year, however, the town implemented a new pay-by-plate parking system at the Inlet, thereby alleviating the need for paying at the exit booth when leaving the lot. Incidentally, the traditional back-ups leaving the Inlet lot after the fireworks on the Fourth were not alleviated, not as a result of any shortcomings of the new parking system, but rather the inability of Baltimore Avenue and downtown streets to absorb hundreds of vehicles leaving the lot at the same time.

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19 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's f'ing extortion

Anonymous said...

They can take this town and shove it. As an old person, the last thing I want to do is pay $5.00 to get Thrasher's fries and a box of popcorn.

Anonymous said...

Cant afford that crap. Shove it

Anonymous said...

I quit going years ago.
They can have it!
Nothing but gangs and panhandlers now.
Not a family friendly place to go anymore.

Anonymous said...

Put a Leesh on those Bus supervisors this summer !!!

Yelling at customers , herding them to back of bus ,

stoping buses for no good reason , holding up the drivers,

micro-managing the drivers , who already have enough on

their plate !!!! That mentality needs to Go !!!

Anonymous said...

You are crying about 5 dollar parking but will pay 12 bucks for a cup of potatoes and 10 for a box of popcorn..
Yeah that's logical..

Anonymous said...

Fools and their money must part.

Anonymous said...

Giant sucking sound when you cross that bridge. We quit O.C. years ago,nasty place to visit and to expensive.

Anonymous said...

11 31 exactly these complainers and whiners need to get a job and get out and enjoy life now on to alamo for a big juicy burger

Anonymous said...

You will understand better when you get my age and are on a fixed income. This is about one thing I still have to enjoy in my life, but now that is gone.

Anonymous said...

Just stop going
Plain and simple

Anonymous said...

Now that they are nationalizing drivers licensing they can hold your license hostage over a $5 fine.

Freedom.

Anonymous said...

Go into that parking lot on the 4th of July, and you will be held hostage, at $5.00/hr until after 1:00 PM when the gridlock starts to move. There is no place I'd rather NOT BE than OC on the 4th of July.

Anonymous said...

2:13 PM Yup. Pay for sitting in line @ $5 a pop.

Hey Joe, can we see the fireworks from your place?!?!

Anonymous said...

This complainer is now 86. Hope you live long enough to find out what it feels like to have one of life's small pleasures taken from you. And hope you are on a fixed income. Also I was born in the USA and served in the military.

Anonymous said...

Who wants those soggy ass fries anyway?

Anonymous said...

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY! That's all they are about. Squeeze a nickle out of you any way they can. Come on down, but be prepared to spend your ass off.

Anonymous said...

So, go into the lot and get trapped and held hostage at $5.00 and hour. That's not tourist friendly, at all. How long will it take those dopes to figure it out?

Anonymous said...

Take away that Micro managing Bus Control center on the
boardwalk !!!

Let the bus drivers alone ......This is Not NASA (Houston) !!