Happy First Day of Street Sweeping Season!

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$50. For a street-sweeping ticket. Not for parking in a handicapped spot or in front of a fire hydrant. Seriously? Seriously?!?

This is out of control. I was ticketed at 8:16 a.m. BEFORE street sweeping had even begun in my neighborhood. By the time I moved my car at 8:24 a.m. I hadn't impeded ANYTHING. How about ticketing AFTER the street sweeper moves through and ticketing people who ACTUALLY impeded street sweeping? Oh too much hassle you say? I don't think so. If the city can put people out bright and early to ticket before people move their cars to go to work then they sure as hell can put those same people out at say, 9 a.m. when most working people will have gone for the day and what remains are cars that will likely be on the street all day.

I know I'll be snarked from here to Winter Hill but I don't know why we take this crap. When I moved here in 2000, a street sweeping ticket was $10. $10! Now it's $50. I know MY pay hasn't increased 5X since 2000.

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[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

Ah, good ol Clarendon. I lived on that street as well - the best part was the bitchy old lady on the Cambridge side who would always look in my car widows and get in everyone's business - she's pretend she was trying to help people but was really a nosy busy body!

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

I would say that sounds like Ida (or something like that), but she was on the Somerville end. She was especially big on the back-to-back street cleaning days. She was helpful to me...she told me my landlady had died and no one in the building had heard anything about it (and that was weeks later).

[duffless2323.livejournal.com]

yes, that's her name!

I guess she was useful for you, but she'd always comment to me when my car was on her end of the street, closer to cambridge than me, that I wouldn't have to park so far down if I didn't come home so late at night, blah blah blah. I was like, mind your business.

She also yelled at me for keeping books in my car and that I was attracting thieves. Yes, because there is a really hot market for second hand paperbacks. Ok, i'm just venting now, when I'm an old lady I know i'll be a giant pain in the ass!