Homeless people hang out in a part of the street that used to have angle-in parking spots in front of the main Post Office on 4th Street in downtown Grand Junction. The angle-in parking is coming back as soon as it gets warm enough to re-paint the street.
In a conversation on February 15, 2025, City Councilor Randall Reitz said the City is going to restore the original angle-in parking in front of the Main Post Office in downtown Grand Junction “in April, when it’s warm enough to repaint.”
Last fall the City re-vamped 4th and 5th Streets to be more friendly to bicyclists. Unfortunately, the new arrangement made the area in front of the Post Office far less friendly to motorists by narrowing it one lane and requiring motorists to parallel park into parking spots located about 12 feet into the street. The new parking arrangement accommodates fewer cars in front of the Post Office and often caused a single motorist to hold traffic behind them while parking. Once parked, motorists were faced with opening their doors into oncoming traffic squeezed into the single, narrow lane.
Reitz said the parallel parking situation turned out to be “not a good model.”
Many City residents have clamored to have the angle-in parking restored in front of the Post Office. Come April, they’ll get their wish.
On probably a hundred or more trips into down town, I’ve never seen a bicyclist on 4th street or 5th street. Maybe the whole 4th and 5th street revamp was just a solution looking for a problem.
On one trip on G Road I saw two geniuses STOP at a traffic circle when there was no traffic. These are the geniuses who complained. They know nothing. But now they can back over me going by on my bike, but that is acceptable. UNCARING IDIOTS who cant do a traffic circle, let alone parallel park.