Mayor Cahill, we got your message, you don’t want Rutgers fans dressed in red in Buccleuch Park anymore. Instead of promoting your park, you are charging a new parking fee, not thinking about the consequences to the merchants in your city and the loyal fans of the “Birthplace of College Football” who patronized those merchants in your city after tailgating in the park for over 50 years, when you couldn’t give a Rutgers ticket away.

Where’s your loyalty? Fans will now park in Piscataway and spend their money in other towns. You removed the picnic tables, garbage cans and benches. Residents pay taxes for a park they cannot drive through, park in or get an emergency vehicle through because you authorized barricading the entrances the day before and of the game.

Residents are burdened by losing their own parking spaces in front of their homes due to fans who chose not to park in Piscataway. If you need $20 so bad to refurbish the mansion, as that is your reasoning for the new fee, have a fund-raiser. What’s next, are you going to charge $20 to sleigh ride on Red Barn Hill?

Fred C. Sonntag Jr.


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