The Tribune printed an article (Metro, July 27) discussing the need to have metered parking in the Waveland Park parking lot to free up spaces for golfers. In more than three decades of golfing at Waveland (Marovitz Golf Course), I have never found the lot so full that parking was not available.
Anyone who has played Marovitz knows that the average nine-hole play takes anywhere from 2 3/4 to 4 hours. Add the fact that the tee time is usually 15 to 30 minutes late on a busy golf day, and one can see that the four- hour, $2 maximum is not realistic. In addition, it effectively rules out those of us who would like to play 18 holes.
Because the effective hours are between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., the overnight parkers at whom this is ostensibly aimed will only have to pay for a metered parking spot from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and park overnight anyway.
This is either fuzzy thinking or, more likely, an attempt to milk the public. The statement that this is an attempt to free parking spaces for the golfers is obviously not true.
