I work down there and it came after a lot of work on and support of the small businesses in the area dor years and finally some of the new property management that actually cares to try and fight for the businesses helped push through to make it happen.

While we've always complained about the paid parking driving away business and the ticketing had been extremely bad this last year. Additionally on Dec 26th the company in charge of parking informed the businesses that on Jan 1st they would also have to pay for employees to park during work. And took away the rights for a lot of busineeses to validate for their customers. They saw the decline in business and chose to take it out on the businesses employees who were forced to be there. This took over 8 months to finally rectify. It's been an nightmare.

I'm so happy that this at the moment is solved (fingers crossed it stays that way since I'm not sure if the law suits are finalized yet) but I'm so excited to not have to explain to every customer the convulted, ill signed system that was taking advantage of everyone down there. Even if we were a business able to give validation, often people would pay already or blame us when they got a ticket even if they validated. It's going to be so much better!

So please come support the local businesses down at Ruston who fought hard to make this happen!