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# Park it right here... please!
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/park-it-right-here-please-editor/
- Published: 2007-12-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:19:58.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By Henry Rosenfeld Santa Monica*

Regarding that new many-storied parking structure with the funny colored lights along Fourth Street, by the freeway, next to the new police station: It used to let us know, via light-emitting-diode, like the other Fourth Street lots further downtown, the number of spaces that remained available — “700... 679... etc.”

Now, no numbers emit from any diodes. Zip. Nada. Not a digit is stirring. I was wondering if that’s because nobody is parking in this new lot, and the parking folk are just too embarrassed to let us know that.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 8, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120807.pdf?ref=smdp.com)