What do people do without a train parking permit???

[Port Chester Local]

I think Port Chester (right next to Rye) has a lot of open parking spaces in a garage thats about a 5 minute walk from the train station, not sure if they rent the spaces to non residents though. I looked into it for myself last year and at the time there were plenty of vacancies but the cost was outrageous (for me anyways). Your husband could take a cab to the station every day too- they're actually not that expensive at about $4.00 a trip- your daily cab fees would be likely to come close to what you would pay to park around here.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by SunnyT4

Yes to quarters, yes to spouse drop-off, yes to gas station parking lots. When I moved here from the South, it was a bit of a shocker to learn what people put up with. Even with the higher salaries, I felt that my standard of living dropped because these type of quality of life issues.

I've lived here 95+% of my life and I'm still shocked (to the point that after my first post-college job I've tried hard to work in the suburbs).

Anyway, as others said, some carpool, others have spouses who are able to p/u and drop off, others just pump quarters. Some drive to "major" stations like Stamford or White Plains or New Rochelle or Mt. Vernon East or Yonkers or Tarrytown where there's a lot more parking (though still metered and expensive). Some stations are positioned such that you may get a free street space with a somewhat short walk if you allow plenty of time, two I know of like that are Mt. Vernon East and Dobbs Ferry, but it gets aggravating to do that on a daily basis and it could take you 30 minutes to find a person who lives around there who drives to work open up a space.

I also know a couple of "extremists" who try to really save money and drive to somewhere in the Bronx and take the subway, but generally parking is even harder to find (especially free street parking) and you may find your car broken into one day (from my experience of doing this for very occasional daytime trips to Manhattan your best bet is near the D train around Bedford Park Blvd......but again I would not do this on a regular daily basis).