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no it's not.

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parking is needed

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Clearly, this is an issue or we wouldn't still be talking about it...

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I still say there is no need at this time for more parking. I know for a fact that a lot of cars parked in PNC were belonging to Maplewood residents or visitors. We'll just have to use the street now. The businesses are not hurting because of a lack of parking. They are hurting because aside from Teddy's, Chinese, Pizza and Gil and Berts there is nothing attracting people into town. How often do you need something from Claire's- birthdays and Christmas? What about David Wells you don't buy an antique every few days. The one building with the seamstress is mainly offices and the seamstress is not a dry cleaner so again you won't use that service every day. The parking is not the issue. It is businesses with long term sustainable business models that are lacking. If a deli opened you'd see people flocking to it especially on weekends if they had bagels. People always need to run out for milk, bread, eggs, etc...

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The Witts may have a few additional parking places that the town could rent for village residents or businesses until the town develops a more permanent solution.

We might want to support them - try it that way first.

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In response to the guest who wrote: You people make me laugh. Talk about turning a couple mole hills into Mountains. Scott Ave is a "nightmare"? .... You guys live pretty sheltered lives if you think that anything in Cranbury is a nightmare. I drive down Scott all the time. Yeah, it's not wide enough for two way traffic sometimes. Big deal. It's a very short stretch of road with very low traffic flow and okay lines of sites. And the restricted flow just makes most people drive it slower anyway. No big deal. "

You are clearly not a resident of Scott Ave or Maplewood Ave since you mention your need to park in the area for local events, therefore you don't understand the nature of many residents' concerns. Only the residents of these blocks who experience speeding passers thru daily can speak to the safety issue with intelligence. These blocks are policed very little. People speed down Maplewood BECAUSE they are policed so lightly unlike Main Street where speeding is monitored more heavily. There are many of us here who are not concerned with the BR and their parking scenario but are concerned with the safety of our families. We have homes that sit very near to the street and our goal is to minimalize the traffic brought onto our block now that local merchants and store customers are required to park on our blocks. It is a shame that you can't be a bit more sympathetic to our concerns for safety for our families.

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If you add one pen stroke to BP, you get BR. Coincidence? I think not!

Now, I just have to figure out how Obama is responsible for the BR.

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The engineers for the town are licking their chops over this one. They will squeeze every last dollar out of the Witts in the name of parking. I feel sorry for the Witts. Their legal and development fees will skyrocket trying to do something nice for the town. Why anyone would want to bring a business onto Mains Street is beyond me.

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Oh My God there are moles in Cranbury

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You people make me laugh. Talk about turning a couple mole hills into Mountains.

Scott Ave is a "nightmare"? You guys live pretty sheltered lives if you think that anything in Cranbury is a nightmare. I drive down Scott all the time. Yeah, it's not wide enough for two way traffic sometimes. Big deal. It's a very short stretch of road with very low traffic flow and okay lines of sites. And the restricted flow just makes most people drive it slower anyway. No big deal.

And the idea that the new bike shop, construction company offices and house will have Main Street addresses so people are going to be completely at a loss because their GPS's send them to Main and they won't know how to figure out to get to the back for parking... what planet are you from? Give people a little more credit than that. A lot of places have parking on side or rear streets. People figure it out. The world doesn't end.

There are one or two people here who have always had it in for the Blue Rooster. Probably just jealous of a seemingly successful business or have a personal beef with the owners. So they try to hijack every topic to get a dig in. Most people can see through their bias and just ignore them.

As for parking, I can't think of a single town I have ever been to along an Western or Eastern seaboard state with less of a parking problem. You'd think the complainers here are from LA where they use a car to get across the street. Even on Cranbury Day, the Memorial Day parade or 5th of July I don't have problems finding reasonable parking in the Village. When people visit us they always comment on how easy parking is. You people have lost perspective or just want something to complain about.

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Maybe someone can put up a sign to point people to the school parking lot and encourage some of them to park there some of the time if parking on Main Street is an issue.

It wouldn't hurt some folks to walk a little bit further.

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