City Clarifies Timing: Hamilton Parking Changes
The City of Hamilton said they want to reassure the public that the planned parking changes will not go into effect without “advanced communications giving details of all the changes and their start dates.”
Earlier this month the City announced they plan to make changes to parking in Hamilton, including cost reductions in some cases, extending the area that parking fees must be paid, as well as employ “aggressive” clamping of cars parked in spaces designated for residents.
Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy previously met with Mayor Graeme Outerbridge and COO Ed Benevides to discuss the Government’s concerns, while Shadow Minister for Municipalities Senator Renee Ming said the parking changes are likely to negatively impact retail sales which could “usher in another round of redundancies in the already shrinking retail sector.”
Speaking today, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary to the City of Hamilton Edward Benevides said, “Further to the media statements given last week about the proposed parking changes taking place in Hamilton, I want to reassure the public that the changes will not go into effect without advanced communications giving details of all the changes and their start dates.”
Mr. Benevides added, “My office has received a number of questions from the general public asking when the changes will take place. I reiterate, the new parking changes will not go into effect on October 1. The City of Hamilton is working closely with its legal team and the Bermuda Government to address the questions raised about the Parking Ordinance as published in the daily newspaper on September 23. I encourage motorists to continue to park as they have and we will communicate fully about when the changes will be implemented.”
The proposed new zones and per hour parking rates are as follows:
- Zone 1: $2.00 an hour, covers all streets between Front St and Church St, including Church St.
- Zone 2: $1.50 an hour, covers all streets between Church St and Dundonald St, including Dundonald
- Zone 3: $1.00 an hour, covers all streets between Dundonald St and North St.
A map showing the proposed new zones is below. Click to enlarge:
I fly to NYC more than I go into Hamilton…
I get much more bang for my buck and far better service and quality!
Great! Now can they please clarify how the trip to Columbia was any benefit to the City of Hamilton?
Why not just make it $1.50 across the board and call it a day… but no they have to make a mess of everything… AGAIN!!!
They are clamping like mad these days.
they are all day dreamers
This is the way it will be as dictated by the regime supreme commander Beneviedes who dictates inside and outside the organization and no amount of good sense or argument can change it, it has to be the worst run town on the planet they have no leadership, no business sense, certainly no engineering expertise whatsoever, and the clamping zombies are already on a very slippery slope, but……it’s what has been dictated and therefor it shall be.
Anyone seen the new sign that they put up today right underneath the old one that says “Parking for 3 Hours no return for 2 hours”. The New sign says “3 hours parking and no returns 1 visit per day”.
Great way to help kill the business in the city, C.O.H.
we should all boycott the city hall parking for at least 2 days.
So if I take the car town in the morning and not notify my wife that I did, and that afternoon she takes it, the car can get clamped.
This so wasn’t thought out right.
Thanks C.O.H.
I don’t understand the no return. The fools should be glad you wana return. The consumer is paying, geesh.
Now for the free parking I can understand the no return and that’s understandable.
CofH management has no class nor brains.
Instead of raising fee’s why don’t they put a system in place to collect all the outstanding parking tickets. I know people that havent paid a parking ticket in years yet can licsence their cars every year. Why aren’t TCD and Department of Prosecution connected, we have the technology. Instead every 7 years the Department of Prosecutions is swimming in unpaid tickets that they wipe them off the books.
Dreamers…all of them!
Hmmmm, $2 per hour for zone 1 does not seem too bad. On local news for me today I caught that downtown Raleigh NC parking rates are about to go to $1.25/hour. Given that almost everything in Bermuda is at least twice U S price the COH jump to $2/hour is not too bad.
Towns like Raleigh have to compete with the malls, the strip malls, the shopping centers & Walmarts around them, all with plentyful free parking.
With the exception of a few stores Hamilton does not have much outside competition with plentyful & free parking.
What kind of foolishness is this.