I'm not calling the South Main Street area a paradise by any means but a court house, with no parking. For those of you who live in other parts of our wonderful city let me explain the plight that one has to live in this section of the city.
During the day it's like the movie Dawn of the Living Dead. Druggies walk up and down the street, make deals right in the open, and on their down time relax in Kennedy Park. They leave their needles there, and their empty alcohol containers there as well. Makes for a nice picnic with your kids.
The traffic is repulsive as well. Not only are people beeping their horns, but play music so loud that you can not even hear your own TV over the bass, and/or the Portuguese music.
It does have it's benefits too, it makes for entertaining people watching. On a good day you can come home with a gentleman passed out on your walkway or a neighbor drinking Natural Lite out of a champagne glass.
Parking is like a scavenger hunt. There are meters if you want to run out to your car every 2 hours. However if the meter maid is having a bad day you will still get a ticket no matter if you feed it or not. There is also 15 minute parking, which obviously is only good fro 15 minutes. Unless you own a store on the street then you can park there all day. I know this because the same truck is parked there all day, and it's funny to me that it never gets a ticket, EVER. So i guess the meter maids are crooked too.
Forget about parking during the "Great Feast". I had to pretty much beg and plead with officers so that I could just go home. I just do not believe that it is fair that I live 20 yard away from Kennedy Park, and they think they were going to force me to park almost a mile away. ( in case your interested I did get to park on Middle street, with some begging, pleading and name dropping.)
Now, there is going to be a court house and NO ONE thought of PARKING? Who had to sign their name to this? There is the Academy building, Borden East and West, the Government Center, not to mention small stores all along the street? Bad planning. at the very least.
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From a 2002 Herald News article...
"A local committee that Mayor Edward Lambert Jr. formed more than two years ago had recommended using the site for the courthouse, and the state supported the committee's decision in December."
The Herald News archives wouldn't allow access to earlier articles to try to get the names of the members of this site selection committee.
"Lambert and Kenneth Fiola Jr., executive vice president of the Fall River Office of Economic Development, have publicly supported the South Main Place site."
And for the funding for the courthouse...
"In an attempt to get state funding to build a new courthouse in the city, state Rep. Robert Correia, D-Fall River, has earmarked Fall River on the $791 million bill for the construction of courthouses that the House will begin debating today."
And for good measure...
Division of Capital Asset Management Commissioner David B. Perini, and
Finegold Alexander & Associates, Inc. - the designer.
I guess I know who signed there name! lol
What's the mayor going to do with the parking?
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