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

[lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com]

Don't be nasty to the person who suggested you should pay the tickets. You did park illegally. If you feel you were unjustly ticketed or that it is morally wrong for the city to ticket you then either fight the ticket or commit some public act of civil disobedience. Or register to vote and vote against all incumbent politicians who agreed with or caused the raising of the parking ticket fees from the Alderman, the Mayor all the way up to the Governor and the President. Don't dis the person who suggested that you do the legally correct thing. We don't need that in this community. The reality is that if you don't pay the tickets it will catch up with you eventually and it will cost you a lot more than $90. Penny wise Pound foolish. Welcome to the neighborhood. Play nice.

[phaedras.livejournal.com]

What you're suggesting is ridiculous. I'm sure you know that isn't a real solution. Anyway, my question was: "How do I not pay an amount equal to groceries for a month for an infraction that harmed noone within a month or two of moving across the country to a whole region of the country I have never lived in before."

There's no reason to get all high and mighty about this. I pay taxes, recycle, vote, open doors for people, whatever. I don't need people to get on my case for asking a simple question that shouldn't be as controversial as you are making it seem to be. I also play "nice" without anyone having to tell me to.

I like it here. I'm staying, and I seriously don't think that anyone I know or will come to know in this town is going wish I wasn't.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

You just moved to the area. You're sorry about breaking the laws and it won't happen again. Your new car will be properly registered, and you'll have a resident sticker on it like you're supposed to.

Tell that to the clerk at the parking office and you might be able to get the tickets voided.

[lissie930.livejournal.com]

It certainly can't hurt to go talk to them or call them up. They waived a ticket for me because I hadn't read my visitor's pass clearly (there's a limit to how long you can use it). I even was cranky when I called them because I thought I was in the right, and the guy was very nice (though totally called me on being a pill!).

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

it's not ridiculous. you're getting this reaction from people because parking tickets are a fact of life in boston. pretty much everybody at some point or another has got caught forgetting about a snow emergency, or street sweeping, or whatnot, and gotten ticketed. you just have to deal with it like everybody else does. if you think this is unfair because you just moved here and are trying to get used to it, then appeal the tickets.

and in the future, sign up for bostonsweeper so you don't forget:
http://bostonsweeper.boston.com/

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

saying that something is a "fact of life" means that it is "something unavoidable that must be faced or dealt with".

it is not a comment on the rightness, justness, goodness, or badness of said fact. nobody is saying they are happy about parking tickets; just that they exist here, and are something that has to be dealt with as such. there are a lot of great things about boston, but this is one of its downsides. you learn to take the good with the bad. for example, i live in tucson right now. while it's terrific that in tucson i can drive anywhere and never worry about finding parking or being ticketed, i really miss being able to walk places or take public transit like i could in boston.

in regards to your question, i doubt that voting will get you anywhere, seeing as tickets are a major source of revenue for the city, but consider that boston has one of the best public transit systems in the nation; do you really need a car? and how often do you need it? you might want to consider getting a zipcar account instead:
http://www.zipcar.com/how/