Mayor sets up Parking Task Force

[winterhill.livejournal.com]

Just received this notice from my Alderman.

http://www.somervillema.gov/NewsDetail.cfm?instance_id=1464

Comments

[geekpixie.livejournal.com]

I'm obviously still turning in my petition and sending out copies (Thursday will be the first day I've had time in the morning to go by the Parking office and known that was the place to submit the petition) but I can't help but feel the same way. Toothless is a good description. I also wish that I'd gotten more signatures, but for all the rabble rousing on the internets I was lucky to scrap together 50 signatures (the required amount) over the last week or so. I have a nice long list of signatures from the Somerville Theatre's petition that are possibly residents but their petition didn't state "I am a registered voter" so I can't count on them checking all of those and counting them, or even caring. We'll see.

[tober.livejournal.com]

I do applaud your petition effort (I would have signed the non-resident petition - I live in Cambridge - had I been in the vicinity of Davis last Wednesday although I think non-resident signatures will hold no sway with the Traffic Board anyways) but I think that actually the most effective thing that Somerville residents can do at this point is to lobby their ward alderman and/or the aldermen-at-large. If you care sufficiently then you should make it clear to him/her that he/she will absolutely not be getting your vote in the future if the proposed parking regulations come to pass as they now stand.