The Meatpacking District has a new set of car traffic patterns designed to protect pedestrians and initiate a better flow of car and pedestrian traffic. Along with the new traffic patterns are new parking regulations as well. The new signs posted on Gansevoort  and Little West 12th Streets have added the following restriction, “No Standing from 11pm-6am Thurs-Fri-Sat.” Beware or it will cost you $115 and cause you to say words that begin with F, S and or MF. The sign also indicates that parking meters are on the way. I’m taking an educated guess here that parking lot rates in The District are about to spike! Do you think the Gottlieb/Bender clan will open up some of those awesome buildings of theirs and turn them into parking facilities to help relieve the parking pressure that has just been created overnight? Hey Neil Bender, help out the neighborhood.

And the rock obstructions used to divert traffic are not the best looking things either. As a matter of fact, it’s the ugliest looking rock group I have ever seen (not including the Rolling Stones.)

Also, they have made Washington Street a Two-Way street from Little West 12th Street up to 14th Street. Why didn’t they extend that down to Gansevoort Street so you can drive down Gansevoort to Washington and make a right turn up to Little West 12th or14th? It would be a tight squeeze and it would probably take out a whole additional block of parking spaces, but what the heck, they don’t want cars here anyway. Oh the powers that be.