City of Somerville parking survey

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Somerville is doing an online survey on parking in the city and dealing with the Traffic & Parking Department.

One of the questions is "Have you ever visited the Somerville Traffic & Parking website? (http://parksomerville.com)". Sadly, the only answers are "Yes" and "No", or I would have said, "No, because I'd never heard of it -- good job on promoting that!".

Comments

[sandhawke.livejournal.com]

And then, on question 14 of 14, I learn that this survey is only for people how currently live in somerville.

(No, but I have lived in Medford, Somerville, Cambridge, Belmont and Waltham, over the last 20 years.)

[xuth.livejournal.com]

I see nothing on the survey that says that living in somerville is a requirement, just a question of how long you've lived in somerville. If you have anything useful to say, it's probably worth saying it there.

[lonelyholiday.livejournal.com]

Glad I saw this before I started! I just moved out of Somerville about 4 months ago, but I was interested in taking the survey because I actually dealt with the parking office AND website quite a bit related to the move. Oh well!

[lonelyholiday.livejournal.com]

(Oops, "this" was supposed to be in response to the comment above.)

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Well, you can look at my reply to that one also or I can just say that while it looks like they would like you to currently be living in somerville to fill it out, the only specifically relevant question is "how long have you lived in somerville" and you can answer it quite truthfully without living there now.

[theorangebird.livejournal.com]

This. There's no indication or question that requires respondents to be current Somerville residents.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

All of the questions are optional.

I only answered one question. In the general comments box, I asked them to remove resident parking restrictions from the streets that don't need them.

[zmook.livejournal.com]

parksomerville.com is the Traffic & Parking link on www.somervillema.gov, which I have used for paying tickets. I had not noticed that the url changed when you follow the link, but that doesn't seem that important.

[theorangebird.livejournal.com]

As someone who writes questionnaires as part of my day job, this one isn't very well written. To wit, question 8 assumes a certain notion. Alternatively, it'd be better to ask whether the respondent knows about the ParkCard, then ask (as appropriate) why they use it or don't. Thus, I'm not sure how they're going to get a lot of good data from it.