Edmonites suggestion for downtown OKC!

[metro]

I'm not saying because of where she lives it automatically explains it. But it does make sense. I don't think everyone in Edmond thinks like this and I flat out know many of them don't. But I'd also be willing to bet that plenty of them do. It's obvious no matter where she's from, she doesn't get the bigger picture of urbanism.

[hipsterdoofus]

Possibly, but im sure there are people from other parts of the metro that think the same way - I Just think its funny that since they are from Edmond, they must be part of the lazy Edmonites that are too lazy to walk.

[okclee]

This thread is funny in the fact that Edmonites are feeling as if they are being attacked.

[Karried]

We were disappointed when the downtown library and the museum of art were located so near the downtown area that there was virtually no handicapped parking and no curb parking spaces.

Maybe she's handicapped.

This thread is funny in the fact that Edmonites are feeling as if they are being attacked

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Aren't they?

I'm not saying because of where she lives it automatically explains it. But it does make sense.

[hipsterdoofus]

Like I said, I think her complaints are a bit funny due to the fact that there is parking but sounds really indicative of any person not familiar with downtown.

I've never seen a single suspicious person in my parking garage - although I do think it funny that the city spent a ton of money on it yet failed to bother to include security cameras in the price.

[JWil]

True her suggestion is odd, but I also think its silly that you seem to imply she's an idiot simply because she's from Edmond - anyone could have sent this in. I lived in Edmond and worked downtown for many years and knew exactly where to find parking. Just because someone is an Edmondite doesn't make their point valid or invalid.

I agree with that. I love Edmond, but I'll say they definitely think their opinions matter more than most. And I don't consider a person living in Edmond to be a "visitor." I'm sorry, they're just not. Anyone in the central OK counties aren't really visitors, simply because the OKC MSA eats all that area up. I think this is just a matter of a person not understanding the function of a down/bricktown area. She's too suburbanized.

And Dale, I totally understand your stance... but I think it's just a matter of you being new here. If you knew the area better, you'd find some great parking within a nice walk of your destination. I'd rather have three tower lots than all the surface stuff, though. That's just me.

[HOT ROD]

This Edmond mom should realize that when she visits downtown OKC, aka where those tall skyscrapers are, that there might not be curbside parking available - because there are other people who also want to visit and they got there first.

Its not a matter of parking, its a matter of LAZY. Im sorry, but visit any other big city and there wont be a sea of parking available downtown, if it has ANY life in it.

It's funny that OKC is just now seeing this kind of reaction, but OKC used to have a much more thriving downtown than it has today (ala a small NY or Chicago); My my my how suburban minded has OKC gotten.

As for light rail, I bet this lady wont even ride it if it were available because she would still have to walk, from her car to the platform and from the downtown platform(s) to the library and back. Surely that aint curbside parking either, and she wont be on the train to begin with.

Sorry Kerried, but these suburban types have chosen this lifestyle - you can't push that on an urban area, those skyscrapers mean more than JUST a symbol of OKC Metro Area, its the MOST URBAN of the Metro!!!

Hence, first come first serve curbside. Be thankful, in many major cities, they dont even have curbside parking on most streets (like Chicago!!, and NY).

Last time I was in OKC, I had NO TROUBLE parking - and didnt even pay for it most of the time!!!

Now if I, a tourist/visitor from Seattle, can figure it out - surely you guys in suburban Edmond can. I mean, no offense but isn't Edmond supposed to be upper class (ie smart?).

[Karried]

I think you are missing my point. I live in Edmond and I have no problem with parking in Bricktown. I don't want more concrete Paved Paradise concrete sprawls.

The thing that bothers me is that because this lady is from Edmond, now all those living in Edmond are 'fat and lazy' and refusing to walk.

Like I said, take the Edmonite / Edmond angle out of the picture and it would be a fair discussion.

It's the stereotype of snobby, spoiled, self indulgent people in Edmond that's being perpetrated .. it's just not true and it bothers me that one lady from Edmond complains about parking and now all of Edmond is being unfairly painted with a broad brush.

[SWOKC 4 me]

The thing that bothers me is that because this lady is from Edmond, now all those living in Edmond are 'fat and lazy' and refusing to walk.

Like I said, take the Edmonite / Edmond angle out of the picture and it would be a fair discussion.

It's the stereotype of snobby, spoiled, self indulgent people in Edmond that's being perpetrated .. it's just not true and it bothers me that one lady from Edmond complains about parking and now all of Edmond is being unfairly painted with a broad brush.

At least everybody doesn't view you as "white trash" or a "gang banger". Try saying you live in SOUTH OKC! What little people usually know about an area but still want to tell you all about it.

A funny story I used to work with a lady that just moved to Norman from Nebraska. One day she was supposed to meet a client in SW OKC at a house in Lakeridge addition on the south side of SW 104th and Western Ave. She asked about half seriously if she should take her gun. I then told her that this was not far from where I live and that these houses were upwards of $300K or more, but she didn't believe me. Her response was that she had heard that all of South OKC was "drug infested gang territory" and she was seriously scared of going there.

BTW she had only been to Downtown in Oklahoma City one time and not been anywhere else in OKC as she had just moved here about a month before and lived and worked in Norman.

.... sorry, I don't mean to digress the thread.

[HOT ROD]

Karried, I did make a specific reference to the lady tho not a sweeping generalization about Edmond - other than since it is a suburb you might have more people there like this woman.

But I agree, in GENERAL (lol), I think Edmong to be downtown OKC's upper crust suburb where people are very intelligent and many/most people's high incomes come from Downtown OKC. It is very very convenient (well relatively so) to commute from Edmond to Downtown for work so I think this generalization fits

I do apologize if I offended you or others from Edmond but I 'tried' to be as specific to this particular lady (and the suburb mentality) as possible.

Karried, we all know you are one of the biggest Downtown/Urban supporters!! So I definitely was not speaking directly to you (perhaps some of your neighbours, .. perhaps).

[Luke]

I gotta say..

Something funny happened today. Me, my wife and baby were going to the downtown library and lo and behold a pickup truck was pulling out of the absolute closest parking spot to the entrance of the library. I pulled in, popped a quarter in the meter and chuckled at the thought of this thread...

[HOT ROD]

lol

I bet the pick-up truck in downtown was pretty funny too.

[JWil]

I think you are missing my point. I live in Edmond and I have no problem with parking in Bricktown. I don't want more concrete Paved Paradise concrete sprawls.

The thing that bothers me is that because this lady is from Edmond, now all those living in Edmond are 'fat and lazy' and refusing to walk.

Like I said, take the Edmonite / Edmond angle out of the picture and it would be a fair discussion.

It's the stereotype of snobby, spoiled, self indulgent people in Edmond that's being perpetrated .. it's just not true and it bothers me that one lady from Edmond complains about parking and now all of Edmond is being unfairly painted with a broad brush.

I think you're over-reacting.

The take I took on this lady wasn't about her being fat or lazy, but rather that she's from Edmond and used to a certain way of doing things and the fact that it wasn't like that downtown bugged her and she wants things to be more what she's used to.

Like I said before, I like Edmond (and all the NW side -- I include Edmond in that just due to demographics), but I can totally see a self-absorbed Edmond type complain that they can't get valet service downtown. Stereotypes are there for a reason, I say.

[dismayed]

No one has picked up on the fact that she mentioned "handicapped or curbside parking" in the post. Perhaps she is disabled. I haven't really been looking, but does anyone know if there are any handicapped parking spots near the library?

[okclee]

I for one am a southsider and I am offended that the library doesn't have a place inside for me and my gang friends to do drugs and shoot off our weapons. Also we like to do drive by's and the library downtown seems to have too many police hanging around outside and nearby.

Oh life as a southsider is so tough. nobody knows.

[HOT ROD]

Hmm, I did miss the handicapt a bit.

But if she were handicapt, then why did she have all of that tone about being raped in the garage and stuff. Hostile words often do not result in kind action, and certainly she was not very kind nor constructive in what she wrote.

Like others, I assumed she was a spoiled Edmond suburbanite mom who expects the world to lay down for her just because she lives in Edmond. That when SHE comes downtown, by golly - there needs to be curbside parking for her.

Well excuse me, .... was my reaction to that.

Now if she were handicapt, i would expect a different tone from her and she would have gotten a different reaction from me (and others).

[okclee]

She could be the type that pops up the handicap sticker whenever it is convenient to finding a parking spot.

We all know how those Edmonites are, jk.

[CuatrodeMayo]

No one has picked up on the fact that she mentioned "handicapped or curbside parking" in the post. Perhaps she is disabled. I haven't really been looking, but does anyone know if there are any handicapped parking spots near the library?

Yes. I don' know where they are in relation to the building, but they do exisit near the building. It is the law.

And yes, stereotypes are earned, but don't paint Edmond with such a broad brush. I'm from Edmond and my family still lives there. They are nothing like that.

[hipsterdoofus]

There are usually spots available right across from the library in front of the courthouse. The garage formerly known as the Galleria is never full - I think the only time they had "Lot Full" signs on it was during the big 12 tourney. - its closer to the library than the parallel spots across the street if you know where to park.