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

[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/