It seems bonkers that I feel like it is necessary to clarify that I’m not making this story up. Some old fart came unglued when my wife parked her car this week in Laurel.
Parking in Billings is definitely hard to find. Especially good parking in large lots. But, these are the absolute worst ones in the city, and I hate having to park there.
For as long as I remember working on the radio people have called in with things like "Will you tell people to turn their headlights on?" on days where it might be foggy or snowing heavily. Or "Would you tell people that they need to scrape their windshields, please...
Parking rates in downtown Billings are going up. The Billings City Council recently approved the hike that will affect on-street and standard parking meters, and hourly rates and lease rates at parking garages. Fiscal Year 2017 budget expenses have exceeded revenues and that imbalance is happening in spite of revenues from the Tax Increment Fund, which grants the Parking Division additional mone
I work downtown in the Crowne Plaza and, like most employees, I must park in the city parking garage on First Avenue. There have definitely been occasions (at least three) when I have encountered some weirdness in the garage's elevator.
I have seen a presumably homeless man sleeping, a young drunk hipster passed out and a couple engaged in romantic activity on the floor...
The Metra is a great facility, so don't take this as a complaint so much as a note in the suggestion box.
I took the kid out to MontanaFair on Saturday night and had to park in the upper lot above the arena. I didn't mind the walk considering I've been to lots of fairs with much less to offer where you drop 10 bucks to park in a field somewhere...