12/18/2005 04:14:00 PM|||Brian|||I've been meaning to give Portsmouth a "thumbs up" for offering free street parking throughout the city to encourage holiday shopping... but I have a little problem with the way they went about implementing it. Now we have all seen covered parking meters in the past, and usually it means, "Don't park here." We have also been trained, especially in regards to general traffic safety, that red is a warning. So why would you place red bags over parking meters to tell people, "Hey park here, it is free"? Well, you might say, "Hey you idiot, they say free parking on the bags!", and I resemble that remark, but the wording, which is in dull black on glossy red, is kind of hard to read when you are in the car. The first time I saw them, which was after a snowstorm, I immediately thought, "Wow, they must be doing snow removal because you can't park anywhere." Call me crazy but, what's wrong with white text on green bags?|||113494215455280369|||Red Is Bad, No?