VIDEO: At last night’s Township meeting, hired traffic professional Lee Klein of T&M Associates, presented a report to the Township regarding the parking situation in the downtown area. After a lengthy study, Mr. Klein presented the Committee with a summarized report on his findings and some of the suggestions to improve the situation.
Some of the suggestions included, building municipal garages, parking lots and different parking strategies such as shared parking and parking time limits and meters.
One of the latest recommendations to ease the parking says Klein, was to convert the 9th Street former little league field into a parking garage.
The Committee will be reviewing the traffic study. TLS.
Parking meters all the way! Make some money for this town!
Last time I checked, building parking garages cost lots of money. Here come the higher taxes
how many people are going to park on 9th street to walk to second street? none!
This is completely unnecessary and wasteful!
Lakewood is rapidly evolving into a city, similar to New York.
There will be no “downtown” very soon. It will be exactly like Brooklyn with stores on every avenue, yet no one central shopping area. “Downtowns’ are for sleepy little towns not big cities.
Pouring money into “downtown” parking is living in the past with no eye to the future.
Maybe we don’t lakewood turning into Brooklyn. It’s called quality of life.
Did he include the parking at the old little league field?
So lets build some more!
A parking garage on 9th street is going to help the downtown area immensely !!! They are so close together, I will go to bagel nosh more often now that i can park on 9th st . I love the idea .
I live on clifton alot of the spots are taken up by yungeliet going to yeshiva a lot at the little league site would solve the downtown parking issue because the yeshiva will have where to put the yungeliet maybe the township and bmg can come to an arrangement and build it together
Did anybody notice that the ‘CLINIC’ on Second Street is adding two or three floors? This incresed capacity will surely increase traffic to an area that is already choking. Was any impact study done?
Why, Oh Why does no-one dare to suggest that we take back the ‘town square’ which is nothing more than a loitering area? It was a parking area before the town spent our tax $$ on ‘beautifying historic downtown Lakewood’ at which time they poured money into the Harrison building (anyone remember that?) and took the parking spaces which at that time seemed superfluous and created the town square. Just restore those parking spaces and that will go a long way to alleviate the problem in addition to making that part of town less convenient for those who have nothing better to do than just ‘sit around’
How predicatable! In middle of a residential area—-what an eyesore!!!! But who cares about that?
And imagine the nightmares on the ramps at 2:00 every day.
I don’t have a college degree but I could’ve have told you that we don’t have enough parking years ago, just look or drive around downtown and its easy to figure it out.
We need to keep the safety of walkers and students in mind- Yes, a parking garage on 9th and Clifton will serve both the high density traffic of students, shoppers, rabbis and those attending special events at both the Yeshiva, schuls, girls’ schools and the hotels. People who like to stroll before or after shopping in the downtown area would also consider parking in a less congested area. All stakeholders can contribute to its construction. Fees can be arranged by afilliation or permit to generate revenues.
The town square serves as a community/cultural and aesthetic center for many groups and a little ‘green space’ in our dense business district. It’s good to see people enjoying the space, playing chess or listening to the music. If you build so many condos, schools and businesses, parking must be in the plans!
I’m no professional parking evaluator but a margin of 2000 spots sounds laughable that’s like saying we need more police like from 2 new members to 100 new members
sound like he wasn’t doing much studying
best idea ever thought of! bring some revenue into this town and help keep the taxes down! then with any extra proceeds, we can use it to make road improvements to help smooth the flow of traffic in certain areas of town. parking garages will do nothing except blight the horizon and dig us deeper into debt with the cost to build. its common sense.
actually the solution is simple.
In this day & age not too many people would shop downtown – they have places nearer where they live. The answer is that many go while at yeshiva.
As said, Lakewood is becoming a large city.
what about the 5 story building on 2nd near Lexington with no parking and the new one at fourth and Monmouth with no parking. The clinic has ap lot across from it on Monmouth Ave.
Who goes downtown anymore? In case you didn’t notice, half the stores there do not cater to our community any longer, nor does the bulk of our community live anywhere near there. The esteemed members of the Planning and Zoning Boards need to stop sitting wisely by and wait for every application for rezoning, (not to mention the ridiculous cost involved to the applicant/s) and be proactive in designating commercial areas in EVERY highly populated neighborhood,and I’ll give some examples: Central Ave., Pine Street or MLK,Finchley might be an idea, Stretches of County Line nearer Raintree(not ALL the way by Lanes Mill,Ocean Ave!!!! Somerset near Ridge, Massachussets,etc, etc.with gas at 4 bucks a gallon, we need local shopping all over.Forget the parking.
this makes sence architecturaly
PARKING METERS ,ARE U INSANE , THIS ISN’T NEW YORK
LET’S KEEP LAKEWOOD THE WAY IT IS AND NOT TURN IT INTO A NEW YORK CITY,
DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT WHAT BROUGHT THEM TO LAKEWOOD TO BEGIN WITH!
TO GET AWAY FROM A BIG CITY ,NOT CREATE ONE
KEEP THE PARKING THE WAY IT IS. IF U PUT METERS IT WILL GET WORST. DOWNTOWN AREA IN MANY COMMUNITIES ARE ALWAYS CONGESTED. THAT IS THEIR NATURE.
THAT’S WHY THEY ARE CALLED DOWNTOWN!
NO ONE WILL PARK ON 9TH ST AND WALK DOWNTOWN. WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF GETTING RID OF TOWN SQUARE. USELESS LOITERING AREA. BUIL THE GARAGE THERE NOT IN RESIDENTIAL AREA.