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Searching for parking in a civilized world
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Apr 14, 2008
<p>No parking.</p></div> </div> <p>Cheever, Welty and Capote wrote there, Bernstein composed there and Joe from the NY State DOT parks there. Correction... <em>parked</em> there. </p> <p>For about 20 years car pooling commuters have been leaving their vehicles on a strip of land just outside the gates of <a href="http://www.yaddo.org/">Yaddo</a>, the artists retreat next to exit 14 on the Northway in Saratoga Springs. It was never officially designated a park and ride -- it just sort of happened, a small strip of free land right next to the highway where vandals weren't likely to wander... why not. You never really thought about it, the cars were just there. In a world where everything is tracked, watched, and overseen, it was one of the few things left that just sort of popped up and remained unregulated. It was like hitching your horse to the post outside the supply store -- the wild west of parking in a civilized world. </p> <p>But now it's <a href="http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/apr/12/0412_yaddostrip/">gone the way of the horse and buggy</a>. Sure it's safer...and it looks better. It's one more Spa City rough spot smoothed over. That's good. Isn't it?</p> <!-- if there's a slideshow, it starts here --> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-comments"><a href="http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2008/04/14/the-classiest-parking-lot-in-the-northeast#comments" title="jump to the comments">1 comment</a></div> <div class="entry-footer-tags">tags: <a href="http://alloveralbany.com/mt/mt-ftsearch.fcgi?IncludeBlogs=1&tag=Saratoga&limit=500">Saratoga</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- entry container close --> <div class="main-content-adbox"> <div class="ad-square-wrapper"> <!-- google ad code --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-3650355899438303"; /* individual entry sub post square 300x250 */ google_ad_slot = "5549462516"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> </div> <!-- close adbox --> <div id="comments"> <h3>Comments</h3> <div class="comment" id="comment-409"> <p>Kind of disappointing the state would do this. The park and rides that are located at exit 15 and exit 14ish, are not as convenient as this was. They could have made it look better and allowed parking at the same time. A compromise would have been better. By saving gas, and being kind to the environment by car pooling, you think that they would be more accommodating rather than getting rid of it.</p> <p class="comment-footer">... said Emilia on Apr 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM | <a href="http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2008/04/14/the-classiest-parking-lot-in-the-northeast #comment-409" title="permanent link to this comment">link</a></p> </div> </div> <!-- comments section close --> <div id="contribute-comment"> <h3>Say Something!</h3> <p class="contribute-comment-rules"> We'd really like you to take part in the conversation here at All Over Albany. But we do have a few rules here. Don't worry, they're easy. The first: be kind. The second: treat everyone else with the same respect you'd like to see in return. Cool? Great, post away. 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