To Lewes Mayor and City Council: If you are going to charge all-out for parking, the least you can do is fix the coin machine at Mary Vessels Park. How long is that machine going to remain covered? It is now July and it’s been broken all season. As you must know, quarters are impossible to come by while in town. Merchants won’t give them to you. Banks won’t give them to you unless you’re a customer. And now the one convenient place where coins have usually been available has been down seemingly forever. To add insult to injury, ParkMobile requires a two-hour minimum. Who decided the logic behind that idiotic rule?
I propose that anyone getting a parking ticket in Lewes fight it. Let’s flood the court with parking ticket cases, and maybe the presiding judge will find in your favor, acknowledging the city is not doing enough to provide reasonable access to coins to feed the meter. If we hit them in the pocket, maybe they will get off their collective behinds and fix the damn machine.
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