Chinatown’s Paid Parking Mystery Continues to Unfold

Michael van Baker — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:24:54 +0000

Let's not let an unhappily-framed Times story set this debate, though, or we'll be here all week, with precedent set for succeeding weeks. None of us has reason to suspect Chinatown restaurants of crying wolf over declining business--and the question of what's causing the decline can be considered separately from what's to be done about it. Blakeney himself mentions the impact from the "incredible amount of construction and loss of parking in South Downtown," having to do with the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project.

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Chinatown’s Paid Parking Mystery Continues to Unfold