Parking tickets

[phaedras.livejournal.com]

I was wondering:

I got slammed twice after moving here. One for parking on a residents-only street and one for being in the way of the street-sweeper. However, I'm selling the car in a week or two. BEsides that, the car has Florida plates on it.

Now if I'm selling the car anyway and my next car will be having new Mass. plates, would they be able to find me if I decide not to pay the ridiculous $90 for these tickets? How would they know who I am? Since I'm going to have a whole different car...

Comments

[phaedras.livejournal.com]

Well, good for you that you're on such moral high ground.

However, I don't agree with filling the holes in your budget by busting drivers because you assume that because they have a car, they can afford to throw money out of the window. A few feet of pavement not swept costing $50? I've seen the vehicles they use leisurely swerve around illegaly parked cars. It's not like they're stopping for an hour documenting the whole scene.

Now it's nice that you're such a great citizen but how about you keep you're entirely useless comments to yourself (which, by the way, have nothing to do with the question I'm asking) and find somewhere else bug people.

[carmesi.livejournal.com]

can't you appeal them? i've heard of people going to municipal court to dispute tickets.

[carmesi.livejournal.com]

i meant people have done that in my hometown, not in somerville. but it seems like a standard thing.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I want to make a snarky remark back, but I won't.

I don't want to fight.

Have a good day, and I hope you work things out.

amodestproposal

[komos.livejournal.com]

As long as you're intent on stickin' it to the man, you may as well go full bore... fake your death and get a whole new identity before purchasing a new car.

Re: amodestproposal

[phaedras.livejournal.com]

See, THERE we go. Classy maneuver, tell me more...

:-D

[komos.livejournal.com]

First off, you'll need a llama...

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

So, to start, the city or town legislatures generally set parking fees. And it's not a matter of assuming you can afford it. In fact, the whole point is they hope it's a hefty enough fine to make you think twice about doing it again. They fine you for parking in the way of street sweeping because dirty roads is something voters complain about. They don't raise the fees to fill budgetary gaps, they raise them when people aren't being detered from being in the way of getting things done.

And speaking as someone with a resident's parking permit in Medford, where your permit isn't even per-town, but per-street, it's really bloody annoying to circle 3 times and park 5 blocks away in the nearest place where it's legal to do so, because there are numerous cars on my street abusing visitor's passes or simply parking without any permit at all. So, again, this isn't charging you a fee because they can, it's trying to deter you from doing something that their voters complain about.