When Barkat took office there was a mutual understanding between the chareidi and secular to keep the status quo in religious affairs, noone is looking for new battles to stop chilul shabbos but to open munipical parking lot is going against it. By the way its not only the eidah rav elyashav also said that there is no room for compromise and so did the gerrer rebbe. Also there were ads from the city of yerushlayim inviting people to come spend their shabbos afternoons in Jerusalem r”l (it didn’t mean by the Kosel or Mea Shearim) and thats why they want more parking lots.
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