River Market struggles with parking prices [Video]

Kansas City business owners in the River Market area are struggling with new surge parking prices implemented by the city.Letty Stegall, co-owner of Blue Line Hockey Bar, says the parking problems are affecting all aspects of their work.”This zone is subject to event-based parking,” she said. “As soon as you park, the people who give the tickets are waiting for you to just put the ticket on the window.”She says it used to be free to park on the street in the River Market, but now surge prices are costing workers their jobs.Arthur LeDuc, owner and chef of Kansas City Taco Company at Walnut and Missouri avenues, says people can afford $1 an hour but not $30, and enforcement is excessive.”People will walk into a restaurant and say, ‘Is it really $30 to park?’ And we say, ‘Yes, unfortunately.’ Most of them go ahead and go somewhere else.””That company has …