Cars towed on the left side even if there is no snow emergency to make room for emergency vehicles

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

http://somerville.patch.com/articles/snow-banks-creating-dangerously-narrow-roads-city-towing-cars-that-block-passage

I got this as a response to one of my other entries on the topic here on 1/26.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Your link is broken. Also, there's another post on the same subject about a half hour before you: http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/2497066.html

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

I think I fixed it. Try it now?

The information above is in answer to the previous post you refer to in which the op wonders if they are doing this to all of the streets. I could have just answered her there, but I think this is important enough to get it's own post, particularly for folks who don't have time to go through all of the comments. If you still think it is too redundant, I can remove it--just let me know.

[ron_newman]

Link is good now. May as well keep your post here now that it has other replies anyway.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Especially because the other link ( so far ) requires a login to see. Lots more people scan/lurk DSLJ without actually logging into LJ.

[ron_newman]

I don't really understand why people make 'friends-only' posts to DSLJ.

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

Rossetti: “If you are on a small side street, maybe look for a spot around the block and walk from there—even if it’s cold.”

Don't ask your guests to do this. Parking around the block with a guest permit will get them ticketed.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

How does visitor parking work in practice? I've never gotten a straight answer about how far from the resident's address, or on which named streets, a visitor permit is valid.

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that if you live on street X, your visitor permit is valid anywhere on street X. If you live on the corner, your visitor permit is also valid on the cross street.

I can't find that written down with a very brief Google search. A longer one might be fruitful if someone wants to do it.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

That can't be right. If you live on Broadway, your guests aren't free to park anywhere from Sullivan to Clarendon Hill.

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

As of a year ago it worked on Highland.

[eanja]

I don't know if all permits are the same, but the one I use to visit people in Davis says right on the back that it is valid on the street I am visiting or adjacent streets. I have at times parked just around the corner from the house I am visiting, based on that, and not had a problem.

Presumably if you are on a street that is miles long, and not just a couple of blocks, there may be some separate rules- someone would have to look at a permit for Broadway and see if it has different language.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

That's the wording I was looking for. The definition of "adjacent" would be key (I would assume that all permits are worded the same, regardless of location). I can certain argue that Kidder and Broadway are adjacent for my block of Josephine, but no idea if Rogers or Willow are "adjacent" for the purposes of this permit.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

To clarify, we lived at 6x willow and now 19x willow, and one of our guests got ticketed right after we moved and still had our old passes. That is only 4 blocks apart. We asked and found out that it was a radius of about 2 blocks.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

This isn't right, in our experience. It's within a 2 block radius of your apartment last I asked.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

On my street, you can park on my block of my street or on an adjacent street within one block, according to the one meter maid I asked.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

I noticed on Holland St there were signs stuck into the snowbanks that said no parking, for snow removal, on a certain night.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Also, isn't a big part of this issue people parking like 3 feet away from the curb? And why aren't they getting tickets?

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

I hope they're not towing legally parked cars on the even side. If someone's taken the trouble to shovel out and has parked close enough to the curb, and the problem is being caused by cars on the odd side being 3 feet out, they shouldn't get towed. Somehow, I'm not hopeful, given the way things seem to work with Traffic and Parking in this city....