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.
More
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
That's f'ing extortion
ReplyDeleteThey 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.
ReplyDeleteYou are crying about 5 dollar parking but will pay 12 bucks for a cup of potatoes and 10 for a box of popcorn..
DeleteYeah that's logical..
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.
DeleteWho wants those soggy ass fries anyway?
DeleteCant afford that crap. Shove it
ReplyDeleteI quit going years ago.
ReplyDeleteThey can have it!
Nothing but gangs and panhandlers now.
Not a family friendly place to go anymore.
Put a Leesh on those Bus supervisors this summer !!!
ReplyDeleteYelling 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 !!!
Fools and their money must part.
ReplyDeleteGiant sucking sound when you cross that bridge. We quit O.C. years ago,nasty place to visit and to expensive.
ReplyDelete11 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
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
DeleteJust stop going
ReplyDeletePlain and simple
Now that they are nationalizing drivers licensing they can hold your license hostage over a $5 fine.
ReplyDeleteFreedom.
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.
ReplyDelete2:13 PM Yup. Pay for sitting in line @ $5 a pop.
ReplyDeleteHey Joe, can we see the fireworks from your place?!?!
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.
ReplyDeleteSo, 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?
ReplyDeleteTake away that Micro managing Bus Control center on the
ReplyDeleteboardwalk !!!
Let the bus drivers alone ......This is Not NASA (Houston) !!