city borders?

[metalynith.livejournal.com]

Does there somewhere exist a map that shows where the Cambridge/Sommerville border is? For, say, parking with the resident permit instead of feeding the meters on Mass Ave, purposes?

Comments

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

All you have to do is look at the street signs.

If they're green, you're in Cambridge. If they're blue, you're in Somerville. Like this:




(http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackaller/4333037758/)

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Those are great, where they are, but I don't think they're everywhere. For example, I don't recall one being on Cameron... and it's hard to see street sign colors at night.

[ron_newman]

They aren't on Day Street either.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I've seen blue signs on Day Street...I guess it depends on where you are.

[ron_newman]

I live right at the city boundary on Day Street, and we don't have a CAMBRIDGE | SOMERVILLE city-line sign like in those two photos. I've seen such signs on other streets, just not mine.

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

Not on Chester Street either. The city line is in the middle of a block so you have to resort to arcana like watching where the "permit parking only" signs change shape, looking for a slight change in the color of the street pavement, or knowing that the small square stone marker in the middle of the driveway of 12 Chester marks the city line (but the larger rectangular stone in front of 10 Chester does not, and neither does the stone mini-obelisk at the corner of Chester and Orchard).

[ceo]

Also, the permit parking only signs in Somerville are square, and in Cambridge they're rectangular.

[zaarwin-devolve.livejournal.com]

Also, in some areas on the border, the Somerville ones will state...Somerville. :) (I think some Cambridge signs say Cambridge too.) But yeah, paying close attention to the sign shape is a better method.

[cos]

If you're actually at a particular location wondering if you can park there, you can look at the "resident parking only" sign and see if the small print says Cambridge or Somerville. Maps serve other purposes.

[ron_newman]

Most such signs don't actually have a city name printed on them.

[ckd]

Don't they at least have "C D T & P" or the like at the bottom? That's a giveaway (Cambridge Department of Traffic and Parking).