Kidder Ave. area parking alert

[ceo]

If you parked your car on Kidder Ave between Highland Rd and Boston Ave last night, it isn't there anymore. Neither is the top layer of pavement.

So yes, our munificent city officials decided to post emergency-no-parking signs on Kidder sometime last night (I didn't see them yesterday) and then call Pat's Towing bright and early this morning. On moving day, no less. Judging from the number of cars that my wife saw them towing around 10:30, it looks like the advance notification was... less than adequate.

We live on Prichard Ave, and today we got a letter telling us that our street will be repaved next week and that there will be parking restrictions during construction. But I bet nobody was notified of the repaving of Kidder, because there aren't any houses on that stretch that have addresses on Kidder.

Comments

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

So I guess they have to tow the cars to do the work. But, they should not make these people pay for the towing? Especially if they only put the signs up at the last minute. And what happened to the reverse 911 phone system? This is one time it would have been useful. The city could of also notified people by email and at regular city meetings or the newspaper. I can guess Ron Newman had no idea this was going on or he would have almost certainly posted about it here.

I would really like to know how these decsision are made, and who was responsible for making it?

[ad-lib.livejournal.com]

I can guess Ron Newman had no idea this was going on or he would have almost certainly posted about it here.

lol.

[ron_newman]

Umm, I hope nobody's really depending on me to post stuff like this. As a non-car-owner who lives at least 3/4 miles away from that street, I probably wouldn't have posted the notice here even if I'd seen it (which I didn't).