The cost of convenience

A few e-mails hit my inbox today re: Street parking fee has some fuming.

Scott Bergen writes:

You know what could have saved the city the $243,000 for the kiosks and been even more convenient? Keeping the overnight permits free!

There is precedent for Donna Gale's campaign for Pasadena to declare her block exempt from the overnight parking ban.

During my eight years on Wilson Avenue, on the Gordo side of the boundary between Districts 5 and 2, I lived a block away from a one block stretch south of Colorado Boulevard that, for some unexplained reason, allowed overnight parking.

Somehow I still accumulated enough parking tickets to deserve a flagstone at City Hall dedicated in my name.