# 50% downtown parking tax **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407 "2004-01-14T17:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rookee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rookee/32/5972_2.png) [@rookee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rookee)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407/21 "2004-01-16T09:10:59Z")
i love how they simultaneously raise parking AND public transportation… total lack of thought there ---
**Author:** ![OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/olds_rocketman/32/5942_2.png) [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407/22 "2004-01-16T09:43:10Z")
> _Originally posted by Jeff95TA_ > > **The rivers don’t help traffic either! And I swear that the amount of traffic congestion that buses create offsets their advantages (but they’re still needed). > n.** > > > > I personally would rather raise a family in the suburbs, and also work in the suburbs. Who says businesses have to be clustered together in a city anyway? It’s not like people have to be able to walk from their house to the general store and the blacksmith shop anymore. more so than the rivers, the tunnels. Why oh why must people slow down in the tunnels. Also bad traffic light timming. Busses should not be allowed to have multiple stops on busy streets durring rush hour ( ie: Blvd of the allies) I don’t think raising a kid in the city is a bad thing. I’m not gonna get out of the city just to shelter my kids from all the bad. I think is less important where you raise kids rather more important HOW you raise kids. Had i lived in the burbs my whole life i’d probably say the opposite. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![slowcamaro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slowcamaro/32/5975_2.png) [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407/23 "2004-01-16T10:42:27Z")
> _Originally posted by Cutty_ > **more so than the rivers, the tunnels. Why oh why must people slow down in the tunnels.** > > > > **I I think is less important where you raise kids rather more important HOW you raise kids. Had i lived in the burbs my whole life i’d probably say the opposite. 🙂 .** well it isnt so bad compared to where i lived before. if you go to va beach and have to drive under the peninsula it makes pittsburgh look like a cake walk… > _Originally posted by Cutty_ > **don’t think raising a kid in the city is a bad thing. I’m not gonna get out of the city just to shelter my kids from all the bad > .** I have a son and he goes to school in pittsburgh under the circumstances. i have him go to catholic school for severeal reason more discipline,less kids in class among other things. It is just my feeling it is my respnsablility to to do the best for my son and if i dont i have failed as a father… ---
**Author:** ![OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/olds_rocketman/32/5942_2.png) [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407/24 "2004-01-16T11:04:15Z")
> _Originally posted by slowcamaro_ > > > > **I have a son and he goes to school in pittsburgh under the circumstances. i have him go to catholic school for severeal reason > more discipline,less kids in class among other things. It is just my feeling it is my respnsablility to to do the best for my son and if i dont i have failed as a father…** no doubt at all my son(s) will got to Central Catholic. That was the best investment my parents could have ever made. It was all the stuff besides the academics that made it all worth it. Like i;ve said before, a central ring is a good thing to have if you are in business or law in this city. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407/25 "2004-01-16T11:25:10Z")
> _Originally posted by Cutty_ > **Also bad traffic light timming.** > > > > **…more important HOW you raise kids.** > x2 on both of those [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/50-downtown-parking-tax/163407.md?page=1)