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| Question of the Week | Tuesday we asked: A report from the Worcester Regional Research Bureau recommends the city raise parking rates. The city manages 4,685 parking spaces, and although in fiscal 2015 it generated $3.67 million in revenue, nearly all of it was spent on the expenses of running the parking operations. To fund a centralized division that could theoretically better manage and maintain parking, WRRB recommends raising the parking rates and doing away with special parking rate deals for large organizations. | Do you support raising the cost of parking in Worcester? |  | - Keep the Francis J. McGrath Parking Lot in its current configuration by the Worcester Public Library. People need a safe, high visibility place to park near the library and other downtown businesses. In the last fifty years, Worcester has lost many municipal parking lots on the fringes of downtown such as the Chatham Street lots.
- The answer is yes and no. Yes, institutions that have been getting breaks for a long time should pay their share. There are a number of large businesses that owe the city money for parking deals that are still unpaid. And no, paid parking in downtown is what killed the mall (so they say). In the end though, anyone visiting a city should expect to pay to park. Worcester's rates need to be reasonable, not sky high like Boston. Lastly, if the city is spending most of the money to manage the process now, how does raising costs to fund a new centralized parking division that will better manage the process solve the problem? The new division should cost less to run, thereby saving money and negate the need to raise parking costs to businesses and the public.
- Worcester needs available, inexpensive parking so employees and visiters will come. A small increase to cover operating costs, but not to fund a new city parking division.
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