{"id":14800,"date":"2016-07-20T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14800"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:15:10","slug":"aurora-shouldnt-be-so-hostile-to-commuters-downtown-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-shouldnt-be-so-hostile-to-commuters-downtown-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora shouldn\u2019t be so \u201chostile\u201d to commuters: Downtown resident"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Re: Commuter Parking Moving Northward concerns Council, neighbours, July 14)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have lived in Olde Aurora for over 19 years.
\nI live a block from Yonge Street, a block from the library (then and now) and the Church Street School, and within two blocks of at least five different buildings that host Sunday morning services and have limited or no parking facilities.
\nI also live within two blocks of Town Park and have used it regularly over the years. My street was listed in the article as one that would have its parking restricted during the day.
\nI don\u2019t understand why we are being so hostile to our neighbours in Aurora and South Newmarket who take the GO Train. We want people to use mass transit and not drive one to a car into Toronto every day.
\nOur representatives have been calling for all day train service for years.
\nHow can people take the train if they can\u2019t get to it?
\nWhy can\u2019t the commuters park on the residential streets around the train station?
\nWhat harm does it do to have cars on these streets during the day?
\nI know that my street is much safer when it is lined with parked cars as all the drivers slow down.
\nI completely understand why parking spaces at Town Park should be available to park users throughout the day. Why can\u2019t commuters use the other streets? We say we want people in Aurora\u2019s town core; we should stop making it so hard for them to come here.<\/p>\n

Melinda Moore
\nAurora
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(Re: Commuter Parking Moving Northward concerns Council, neighbours, July 14) I have lived in Olde Aurora for over 19 years. I live a block from Yonge Street, a block from the library (then and now) and the Church Street School, and within two blocks of at least five different buildings that host Sunday morning services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3QI","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 17:51:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}