Badtz

I appreciate your feelings, but it still seems unfair to blame people like me for the situation. If the public transportation system in Charlotte were better, I would gladly stop commuting by car and ride a bus or rail to work each day. And if my only parking options were decks, I would pay for those decks. But the cheap lots are there, and I think it's crazy to pay $100 a month or more just to park my car when I can pay half that much. Just because the demand for cheaper parking exists, doesn't mean that the people who use it asked for a row of historic buildings to be torn down. I would love to see the Polk building be re-purposed rather than knocked down. And I'm also all for the preservation of the city's historic character. But don't let that stop you from sweeping me into your broad generalization of commuters as selfish redneck wal-mart shoppers who are too fat to walk.

I know this isn't on topic, but I'd really love for you to elaborate on this comment a little. I am a person who works in uptown and drives in from my home, and I park in one of the cheap lots on Graham street. Calling me cheap, I can understand a little I guess. There are decks that are much closer to my office, and even one attached to the building, but they all cost $100 a month or more. The lot I park in now is $50 monthly, which in my opinion is still pretty high, considering that it's full of potholes and fills up like a swimming pool with water when it rains. But.. selfish? I would love for you to enlighten me on exactly how this makes me selfish. Is it simply because you don't want to see parking lots from the view of your uptown condo? If that's the case, then I'm sort of wondering who exactly is being selfish here.