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City Of Gloucester Parking Tag Information, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
City Of Gloucester Parking Tag Information
My View of Life on the Dock
My View of Life on the Dock
City Of Gloucester Parking Tag Information, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Gloucester, geographically, is very special, along with its uniqueness, of course, is another side ~ Politics of this Parking sticker, Joe had to go “digging for it” after a bright woman told him about it. Regarding shopping int this town ~ Having any parking meters at all , discourages “shopping in Gloucester” ~ I was born & raised here ~ then moved “away” ~ Returned in 1999, for family and the geography and have received a few parking tickets ~ ludicrous ones ~ and so I try very very, very hard not to shop in Gloucester’s Main St area ~ on general prinicipal ~ Even Rockport has the good sense to “remove the parking meters at Xmas shopping time” ~ Manchester has no parking meters & there are many malls around to shop & now the internet ~ I pay plenty of property taxes to Gloucester, plus, a beach sticker & trash bags & in return I have problems with water & sewerage at times, have to “truck my trash down to the end of my street and so on! ~ Why would I want to spend more money to park on Main St for only a “handful” of good shops & restaraunts????? Insane town in an insane world ~ I am insane to have moved back here ~ Still grateful for where I live and will stay until it is time for me to leave the planet, I guess ~ Shop in Gloucester? I think not.
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I completely disagree with you. We have fantastic shop owners and restaurants and coffee shops downtown. There is a limited number of places to park so teh meters are also a way to make the spaces available for shoppers to park instead of people parking there and not moving their car for days.
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wow! I can’t believe anyone would punish business owners for their own grievances with the town government!! Gloucester has more than a “handful” of decent shops- one can do their entire holiday shopping down here- and get a fabulous meal to boot! Aside from the meters- and there are 10 hour meters for those who do not wish to run back to their car every 2 hours, there is free parking at the st peters lot- and there is a bus that one can pick up at the outskirts of town and take in. I think if peole were to give the downtown a look over at least once a month they would be surprised at the variety of wonderful stores- restaurants and businesses eagerly awaiting the chance to prove themselves to the locals.
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