The Parking Ban is LIfted!

[lydamorehouse]

... and I still can't find a spot in front of my house.

Sometimes I really hate living in Midway, just off University Avenue. 

Comments

[pameladean]

That is so annoying! We moved into this house in 1996, and the street has always had parking allowed only on one side (fortunately, it's our side). The street used to be parked up predictably on Saturday evenings, but otherwise it wasn't too bad at all unless a neighbor was having a party on some other evening.

But now it's so parked up at completely unpredictable intervals that UPS drivers and people delivering groceries can't find anywhere to pull in to do their deliveries. One grocery delivery had to be left by the garage back in the alley. Since the entire back of the house was completely iced up despite daily chopping and salting, that was a little too interesting. At least it was just a small delivery.

The Minneapolis parking restrictions made this situation worse, but it predates the declaration by months. I don't know where all these cars are coming from or why they want to park on our block. Is it the restaurants on Nicollet, getting a new lease on customers now that everybody is pretending the pandemic is over? No idea.

But Midway, hooboy, that is a much denser and more popular neighborhood; I'm amazed people aren't trying to park on the sidewalks. We used to go to Midway Books, and also to a Korean restaurant not far away that I'm spacing on the name of, and parking was always an adventure. Even then, I used to feel bad for parking up somebody else's block.

P.

[lydamorehouse]

Mirror of Korea, at a guess. But, yeah, Midway is always a mess and more and more of those high rise apartments made of ticky-tacky are going up along University now, so we are getting EVEN more population dense.