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Bar Harbor's Parking Program Made 3x More Money Than The Town Expected

The town of Bar Harbor netted more than three times the revenue it had expected from a new seasonal parking program.

Town manager Cornell Knight says new parking meters installed in the community's downtown and kiosks on town-owned parking lots brought in over $1.5 million. Knight says the system was put in place after a consultant's study five years ago found that there was a seasonal parking shortage of 79 spaces which would increase by 2 percent a year.

“We needed to have a program that would turn spaces over,” says Knight.

Knight says parking permits are available for employees and residents so they can park on side streets.

He says state law mandates that the revenue be used for parking related issues or maintenance of town ways.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.
Nora is originally from the Boston area but has lived in Chicago, Michigan, New York City and at the northern tip of New York state. Nora began working in public radio at Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor and has been an on-air host, a reporter, a digital editor, a producer, and, when they let her, played records.