An Idea, A Lot

The Buffalo Ruse picks up on my half-joking notion that Buffalo needs a museum commemorating its parking facilities.

“The Erie County Museum of Parking will send a message to the rest of the world that Western New York is once again open for business,” claimed Marinelli, standing with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and James Pitts, the former Common Council president whose recently approved development, “The Jim Pitts Fast Food Waterfront Experience,” will anchor the city’s newly designed waterfront.

“We have some of the finest parking lots in the country,” said Marinelli, “And, after the Museum of Parking is opened, Erie County residents will finally appreciate the secret that a few of us already know: Buffalo is a first-rate destination for parking fans from around the globe.”

This quote was great, too:

Erie County Executive Chris Collins, reached at a villa in the South of France where he is researching the origins of the County’s Six Sigma program, had no comment about Marinelli’s museum proposal.