No more towing?

[prog.livejournal.com]

I notice that, at least in my neighborhood (Wilson Square), cars left out for the street sweeper don't seem to get towed as often as before. In 2003 I got hauled two or three times before the sweepers hibernated for the winter; last year I probably goofed as many times, but got only a ticket when I did. Judging by the many ticketed but otherwise unmolested cars I can see outside my window this morning, it looks like the start of another such year here.

Is this just my neighborhood, or has the city become less tow-happy?

Comments

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

I think maybe they're a bit more forgiving early in the season as people get reminded (via tickets) about the street cleaning rules. So maybe it's just a matter of a week or two before they start implementing towing.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I didn't see any towing around my house for the entirety of 2004, though.

[dj-daeva.livejournal.com]

maybe they were lulling you into a false sense of security so that *this* year they can bend you over a table and f*ck you up the ass :oP

<3

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

I lived in Wilson Sqr for 6 out of 12 of the years I was in MA and got a few tickets, but never got towed. I lived on the North cambridge side of Davis for the remaining years and they were vicious with the towing. So I always assumed off of my limited data that towing was a Cambridge thing and ticketing was a Somerville thing.

[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

i think it's a neighborhood thing. there are only so many cops and tow-trucks, so it's kind of like 'how does santa claus deliver all those presents in ONE NIGHT?'. I don't know how they choose what neighborhoods to do though, since it seems to be the same ones year after year: noisy alderman about dirty streets; richer/poorer, whatever.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'd overlooked that mention of last year. I'm then guessing it's a neighborhood thing.

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

My car was towed for street sweeping on Mason Ave in 2004. (grr!)

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

Well, that could be it. I lived in three apartments within a two block radius during those 6 years. I kept moving up and down Spring Hill.