Bank of America secret spots Filled
Block around X-Lounge and Moxie Can’t park after 9
Main city lot Can’t leave my car there Friday night
Here’s the Q kiddies: Where does one park downtown on a Friday night if you plan to take a cab home? Yes, one could take a cab in and a cab out, or bike in and bike out, but come on! Sometimes that just doesn’t work out.
So where do you park so that you can successfully, ticketlessly pick up your car on Saturday morning and not have to wake up at 5AM to go and get it before someone dumps a load of rotten tomatoes on your car, or worse, the Family Ties and Pies gang trashes your ride.
Love, Tuffy
p.s. Family Ties and Pies seem like super nice people and probably the last of the Farmer’s Market booths to trash your car. It was all for imagery.
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Two-hour spots on the street are the way to go. Seriously, there is always at least one spot — remember, they go all the way down the other side of High Street on 3rd and 4th — it just might not be close to where you’re heading.
Failing that, paying to park overnight in one of the garages is cheaper and more convenient than a ticket.
Start from La Taza and drive down Monticello Rd, from there you just walk up the overpass and into the Pavillion/Downtown Mall:
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You can park on practically all of 6th street between lower Belmont and Friendship court after 5pm Monday-Friday and anytime on weekends. There are only 3 or 4 cars parking there at any given time except during work hours.
Omni…
Ive done it every weekend for the past month. just go in the garage, park, and when you pick up your car the next day, tell them you are staying at the hotel and forgot your key. most of the time you just drive straight out anyway, nobodies manning the booth. you guys all owe me.
it doesn’t work for everyone, i know, but i have a monthly parker card for the Water St garage (for work) which has enabled me to leave my car there overnight several times.
Wow. These are brilliant, sneaky, and crafty.
Any idea how much it costs to park overnight at the garage?
Wait a minute. Am I the only person that knows about the free parking lot on Market Street between 7th and 8th NE? You can park there for free without risk of being towed from 5PM on Friday until midnight Sunday. It’s the perfect place to leave your car.
@3 that’s because 6th street between lower belmont and friendship court is hazardous.
i really had to temper that one.
Am I the only person that knows about the free parking lot…
Not anymore.
These won’t be such hot tips anymore. Ah well.
@9: Yeah, I thought about that, but I have a parking spot, so feel free to fill these up.
@9
That’s what I was thinking. Any revelations of my parking spots will be done in person. Teh intarwebs is going to steal them if I post it up here.
Parlie/Thor/Lu Cid… Free for All 8.0 is browser crashing again
@9 thru 11: “…it is the rantings of about 20 people read by about 80 more.”
As long as there are 80+ spots, we’ll be a-ok.
i’ll crash your browser.
it is the rantings of about 20 people read by about 80 more
Are you quoting that hooker? I hope it is in sarcasm, for he could not be farther from accurate.
Plus, I don’t think are 80 total spaces IN charlottesville total.
Behind Derriere de Soie/ Hedge is usually fine.
BYo, come on, man. Of course sarcasm!
I’m going to write a strongly worded letter to Bill Gates et al. to suggest left-leaning Italics to denote sarcasm in text.
Sometimes I park at Parlie’s house, because I only want to walk through ONE ghetto on my way to the mall.
Also, there’s usually parking on Main Street or behind the ABC on Main. It’s a little farther to walk, but really it’s not that far.
My bad TMcF, my sarcastometer is redlining as I have only had a precious few hours sleep (I know, oy, you have had less) and Im facing 3 gigs in the next four days. Plus kids. Plus day job. And now I will have no place to park. Time to get some scrolls on my car and pretend its a hearse for midgets so I can park at the funeral home.
No rest for the wicked…
Belmo, worry not good sir. Rip it tonight. Do we have a flyer posted anywhere?
people who park at my house include but are not limited to: vagrants, crack dealers, hookers, and gobbler.
@8 Whatever, parlie? Or are you just afraid of black people?
Do we have a flyer posted anywhere?
Haven’t done one in a while. They stopped printing hardcopies, I got ripped too many times for “self promotion” on this board and no one ever visits my myspace thing… so I ask, to what end? Pity cause that was the second funnest part of the gig.
@22: Parlie is just smart enough to realize that the area in question is not a good place to park becuase a lot of cars have been broken into down that way.
and so the era of being nice to parlie has begun. I wonder how long this will last.
@25: 15 minutes
@22 I thought parlie WAS black, hence the illigitmate child claims and being a crackhead and all the people that park at his house. i guess that doesn’t exclude him from being afraing of black people
/lights fuse. runs away.
@ethan - hey you said it, not me!
but really folks, what’s a little mob assault and gunplay to keep you from parking somewhere? oh, the DP didn’t report on that yet this summer? must not be happening.
Meh, I’m used to it in my neighborhood by now, so it doesn’t bother me.
Not owning a car, I have no reason not to share. There’s a tiny lot to the left of (and behind) the market street wine shop. It’s free every night from around 4 or 5 pm to early morning. I don’t know the exact hours, but there’s only 3 or 4 spots there.
/someone, somewhere is cursing my name
Unfortunately,
I have no cool or useful parking secrets. My parking fairy takes care of it all. Seriously. For some reason, I routinely get parking in front of the Bank of America ATM at 6pm on a Friday afternoon.
Jack….You get a gay guy to park your car? Cool.
A legal parking space locater would be the bomb diggity killer app for a new GPS system. I have no idea how it would work, but I am sure there is a mad scientist somewhere in North Korea working on it as we speak.