Blue Lights: Davis Square is still balky. All the other lights should have been on by nine or so last night.
Odds'n'evens: This comes up every few years. Allegedly a study done in the early 1990s found that, on the whole, there were more parking spaces and more hydrants on the odd side of the street than on the even, but I have never been able to find the data -- and I've looked at DPW and at T&P. I'm told that the communities that switch off, such as Medford, ban parking on the forbidden side for the whole winter -- not just when there's a snow emergency. That's easy to enforce and understand, but cuts down substantially on the number of parking spaces available during most winter days. Since I live on the even side of the street myself, I am sympathetic to those who, like me must cope with the extra shoveling, but I also know that a system that changes annually will create a lot of confusion and require a lot of explaining every year. Maybe those who want the change can persuade their aldermen to spearhead a new ordinance, but I like the simplicity and predictability of the current rule. Every neighborhood is different, every combination of X and T intersections is different and there's a lot of variety in hydrant placement, etc. The only sure thing is that, whatever the system, plenty of people will object.
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Date: 2008-01-14 05:26 pm (UTC)Odds'n'evens: This comes up every few years. Allegedly a study done in the early 1990s found that, on the whole, there were more parking spaces and more hydrants on the odd side of the street than on the even, but I have never been able to find the data -- and I've looked at DPW and at T&P. I'm told that the communities that switch off, such as Medford, ban parking on the forbidden side for the whole winter -- not just when there's a snow emergency. That's easy to enforce and understand, but cuts down substantially on the number of parking spaces available during most winter days. Since I live on the even side of the street myself, I am sympathetic to those who, like me must cope with the extra shoveling, but I also know that a system that changes annually will create a lot of confusion and require a lot of explaining every year. Maybe those who want the change can persuade their aldermen to spearhead a new ordinance, but I like the simplicity and predictability of the current rule. Every neighborhood is different, every combination of X and T intersections is different and there's a lot of variety in hydrant placement, etc. The only sure thing is that, whatever the system, plenty of people will object.