Park this!

Okay so I work in downtown Galt (Cambridge is made up of three small towns -- Galt, Preston, and Hespeler -- I live in Galt). Downtown Galt is very picturesque, though a bit shady, but on the whole a very nice area... lots of old buildings, little shops, you know. But poeple don't really come down here too often. It's kind of a dying area of Cambridge. So the city decided that in order to boost the liveliness of this area, they would build City Hall in downtown Galt. Great. Kind of an ugly building but hey, not a terrible plan. Now here's where I start getting frustrated. Downtown does not have a lot of parking. For the past two years that I've worked here I have parked in this free parking lot up the street from where I work. It was a little bit of a walk, but not terrible, and I could park there all day. Now that city hall is there, that parking lot has been claimed for the people who work at City Hall. First problem -- I no longer have a parking spot. So I look for another one. But here's the most retarded thing: the city made all parking in downtown Galt 2 hours only. If you park on the street, you can only park there for two hours, for the WHOLE DAY. So if you have a doctor's apt and you park on the street, then go home, and come back a couple hours later to go shopping (again, parking on the street) you could get a parking ticket. Luckily for me, the parking lots (particularly the one right beside my work) are still 2 hours, but if you wipe off the chalk mark and move your vehicle every two hours, they can't ticket you. So that is what I have to do for the rest of the summer. Every two hours I have to go move my car to a different spot in the parking lot. This is RIDICULOUS. If Cambridge really wants people to start coming down to Galt, this is NOT the way to do it. I know, people are not really interested in the parking situation in downtown Galt, but when you spend ten minutes one morning trying to find a parking lot where I can park all day and then have to resort to moving my vehicle every 2 hours, knowing that one day I'm going to forget and then I'm going to get a freaking parking ticket... it's rather maddening. And so I write about it here. Woot.