Copying Somerville sweeping policies to Cambridge?

[fappyheet.livejournal.com]

I live just outside Davis on the Cambridge side of the line and have a lesser of two evils question. Somerville apparently adopted a policy to give $50 sweeping tickets, but not tow violating cars. How would people suggest promoting a similar change to the City of Cambridge?

Due to early focus on work Wed. morning, I missed moving my car for street sweeping and it's gone to a Cambridge tow yard. That means a trip to the yard, more than $100 to retrieve the car, AND pay a ticket that's $30 or so. (Old news to many previous "parking" posters.) A single $50 ticket would be SO much better than this. Are people familiar with what Somerville considered in making this change to the books, or what pushed them to make this decision?

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[magid.livejournal.com]

Cambridge sweeps any given street once per month, while I believe Somerville sweeps more frequently. Given that, it's less likely that Cambridge will stop towing cars that are in the way of the sweepers.

(I commiserate: I messed up where I parked a couple of months ago, and had to pay both ticket and tow due to street cleaning.)

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

Somerville sweeps weekly - each side of the street gets swept twice a month on alternating weeks.

Until last year, tickets were $25. They raised them to $50 this year and I recall hearing that the number of tickets they issue has gone down.