Snow removal and parking restrictions for Saturday 2/5

[ron_newman]

Just got this in an e-mail and robo-call:

Starting at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning (Saturday, Feb. 5) and continuing until 3 p.m., DPW crews will be using heavy equipment to clear snow banks from the following streets:

- Main St., both sides of the street
- Highland Ave., even side
- Orchard St., even side
- Day St., even side
- Chester St., even side

"No parking" signs will be posted along these streets and anyone parked in violation of those postings will be ticketed and towed in order to clear the way for snow removal equipment. Police will be on hand to detour traffic around temporary road closures.

The work on Highland Ave. is being timed so that it will NOT disrupt the winter farmers’ market at the Armory, which starts at 10 a.m. The area will be cleared and open for parking before the market begins.

Comments

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

IT'S NOT THE EVEN SIDE THAT NEEDS WORK!

This is getting REALLY annoying.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

seconded. i would dearly love to have somewhere to put the *rest* of the winter's snow, instead of having to lift it over my head to dump on an increasingly-dangerous pile blocking visibility at the edges of my driveway, or dragging it shovelful by painstaking shovelful up my driveway to add to the monster pile there.

[hikermtnbiker.livejournal.com]

From a resident's perspective perhaps but from a driver's POV this makes sense. They never plowed to the curb during the snow emergencies (?) so there is a huge snow bank in the street on the even side. When cars park on the even side they significantly narrow the street. The cars on the odd side are tucked in between the snow banks and are not a problem. That said, I wished that they would come and clear my snowbanks.

[maelithil.livejournal.com]

As someone who lives on the even side of Day St, I can tell you it absolutely needs work. If they can't clear the even side, they can't plow next time it snows. Cars are currently parked on the odd side, but the even side is one long stretch of snow from Davis to Cambridge. It's impassable, impossible to shovel, and is narrowing already narrow street to the point where cars parked on the odd side are getting grazed by traffic.

I'm glad they're removing the snow from the even side, it's going to free up a LOT more room.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for those streets in my particular, but in my immediate vicinity, it is absolutely the even sides that need work -- all the side streets have completely lost parking on the even side. It's insane. I expect shootings over parking spaces to commence any day now.

[ron_newman]

Agree 100%. I'm watching them do this work right now.

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

This, times 1000. The city is doing pretty much an awesome job removing snow both during and after the fact, particularly when you compare it to Cambridge (drive down Mass Ave to Harvard Sq, or Huron Village, what a joke) and Medford. That said, MORRISON AVENUE BETWEEN CEDAR AND WILLOW NEEDS EXCESS SNOW CLEARED, STAT. Or at least keep your garbage trucks off that stretch until after 9:00 or so tomorrow.

I do wish the city would knock it off with their effing "Plow to the curb" mantra. I realize we've had an ridiculous number of snow emergencies this winter, but the banks on the even side of my street aren't within three feet of the curb right now. Keep up the good work, but don't bullshit me, thx.

[tt02144.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is primarily the even side which needs the work (especially if your 'even side', like mine is the shady side of the street! However, I do see a lot of spots on the odd side of streets where noone was parked when it snowed. These become lost parking spaces, as they are now full of snow.
And while it's commendable that the city is removing snow, and worrying about the impact on a Farmer's Market, what about the rest of the businesses and residences along Highland Ave.? I don't think that one business should be receiving special accomodation over any of the others.