"I would agree with Earl [Brechlin]. This is not APPLL’s plan,” Kristi Bond, Bar Harbor resident, president of APPLL..."
HaHa!
When the Citizen's Initiative was voted into law, we had a full Election Day of voting and also Early Voting. If APPL and their Town Council want to overturn the voters' will then they should get their plan on the ballot and give us a fair opportunity to vote on it. Otherwise, they will add another voter suppression scheme to their current list of offenses.
Before we go any further I want to see the full Appll membership roster so I know who to actively boycott. Any business associated with them will never a dollar from me and I will actively discourage anyone from them as well.
They are attacking the will of the citizens and they deserve retribution.
I would not use the word retribution to describe residents holding APPL accountable. We should know whether our spending is going (along with our Town Council/Town Manager tax dollars) to help APPL break our laws and bankrupt our town. We have many choices to buy local without supporting APPL.
We moved here 45 years ago. Things have changed. More people are here and there will always be more. Acadia National Park now has a reservation system to drive to the top of Cadillac Mountain. The Trenton transportation center is expanding and at some future point there will probably be reservations to just enter Acadia National Park and possibly only by bus. I believe other national parks may already have this system. I think the National Park Service is doing what it can to both protect the park itself and the people who come to experience it.
The citizens of Bar Harbor I think are trying to protect the town and the park experience. 100 years from now, if man is still on this Earth, we will probably have more people and will have to try to figure how to share the space. Both the Park and the town will have to some way regulate numbers. You can see it this summer going into the park and seeing much of the park loop from the Precipice to Otter Point parked up in the right hand lane. This is dangerous because the left hand lane is full of cars crawling along or totally stopped waiting for a parking place. What if an ambulance had to get through?
Downtown Bar Harbor isn't that full yet but it's getting there.
We were retailers in town for 35 years.
We've seen changes tried. One way roads with diagonal parking. Just a few cruise ships per year till around 180 ships per year. Bus parking in front of stores with their engines running. Cruise ship tender boats hitting ledges and sand bars and leaving their engines running, in gear when docked. Things can get crazy here sometimes. On 3 large ship days can anyone say that Main St. is actually passible. It is almost a walking mall because the sidewalls have a hard time containing the people. Good thing we don't have a Port Authority cruise ship pier like other ports have that can handle 4 plus large ships at a time. Port Authorities can take over more land as needed.
Somehow we have to regulate this visiting experience so it is enjoyable and safe for everybody. We only have so much space on this island.
"I would agree with Earl [Brechlin]. This is not APPLL’s plan,” Kristi Bond, Bar Harbor resident, president of APPLL..."
HaHa!
When the Citizen's Initiative was voted into law, we had a full Election Day of voting and also Early Voting. If APPL and their Town Council want to overturn the voters' will then they should get their plan on the ballot and give us a fair opportunity to vote on it. Otherwise, they will add another voter suppression scheme to their current list of offenses.
This is such a typical viewpoint by the entitled. If the vote passes it’s good, if the vote fails the voters are too stupid to know any better.
It’s almost like they don’t want people voting.
Before we go any further I want to see the full Appll membership roster so I know who to actively boycott. Any business associated with them will never a dollar from me and I will actively discourage anyone from them as well.
They are attacking the will of the citizens and they deserve retribution.
Yes!
I would not use the word retribution to describe residents holding APPL accountable. We should know whether our spending is going (along with our Town Council/Town Manager tax dollars) to help APPL break our laws and bankrupt our town. We have many choices to buy local without supporting APPL.
Life in Bar Harbor.
We moved here 45 years ago. Things have changed. More people are here and there will always be more. Acadia National Park now has a reservation system to drive to the top of Cadillac Mountain. The Trenton transportation center is expanding and at some future point there will probably be reservations to just enter Acadia National Park and possibly only by bus. I believe other national parks may already have this system. I think the National Park Service is doing what it can to both protect the park itself and the people who come to experience it.
The citizens of Bar Harbor I think are trying to protect the town and the park experience. 100 years from now, if man is still on this Earth, we will probably have more people and will have to try to figure how to share the space. Both the Park and the town will have to some way regulate numbers. You can see it this summer going into the park and seeing much of the park loop from the Precipice to Otter Point parked up in the right hand lane. This is dangerous because the left hand lane is full of cars crawling along or totally stopped waiting for a parking place. What if an ambulance had to get through?
Downtown Bar Harbor isn't that full yet but it's getting there.
We were retailers in town for 35 years.
We've seen changes tried. One way roads with diagonal parking. Just a few cruise ships per year till around 180 ships per year. Bus parking in front of stores with their engines running. Cruise ship tender boats hitting ledges and sand bars and leaving their engines running, in gear when docked. Things can get crazy here sometimes. On 3 large ship days can anyone say that Main St. is actually passible. It is almost a walking mall because the sidewalls have a hard time containing the people. Good thing we don't have a Port Authority cruise ship pier like other ports have that can handle 4 plus large ships at a time. Port Authorities can take over more land as needed.
Somehow we have to regulate this visiting experience so it is enjoyable and safe for everybody. We only have so much space on this island.