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

[spettacolo.livejournal.com]

The alderman for that area is Sean O'Donovan. Defitnitely give him a call or an email. Those signs were NOT up for 48 hours. I'd say less than 24 hours.

The towing situation in this city is so terrible. You will never get your money back from Pat's towing, but I'd definitely raise a stink about it to Sean AND write a letter to the Journal.

Whose idea was it to rip up a street on the day before a three day weekend... on the busiest moving day of the year?

[artic-monkeys.livejournal.com]

I wonder about this Pats towing relationship with the city too. Sounds like a no-bid contract, backroom deal to me.

[ron_newman]

Pat's Tow partly owns the less reliable of our city's two newspapers, the Somerville News.

They are a blight on the city, which definitely holds back proper development of the Brickbottom area.

[ron_newman]

I mean to say, the towing yard is a blight. The newspaper can at times be entertaining and sometimes informative.