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?

[sarah-raz.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is so obnoxious. Aren't they required to put up signs more than a few hours ahead of time? I know that if you want to put up your own emergency no parking sign from the city (if you need to reserve a spot, say, for moving) you're required to put it up 48 hours ahead of time.

[ron_newman]

You should definitely complain about this to your ward alderman. I assume that would be Rebekah Gewirtz.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

See...now I remember something similar happened in JP when I lived there, except:
* the signs went up about 3 days in advance (I remember thinking that was fairly last minute)
* when they came to do the work, they simple towed all the cars down a block and left them there, so some people may have gotten a small scare, but the road was straight enough that I'm sure most could just see there car moved.

Anyhow, this really sucks, Somerville's other parking and snow-related activities/rules also suck. I am so glad I live just on the better side of the cambridge line