Somerville Department of Traffic & Parking Motto: We'll Sleep When We're Dead

[azores.livejournal.com]

Just curious, but does anyone know the hours worked by those dedicated foot soldiers who serve the Somerville Department of Traffic & Parking, fanning out over our fair city, their handheld modules spitting out parking tickets to the point of smoking mechanical failure.

I ask because have seen these people out and cracking down on transgressors even after 10pm. I repeat, AFTER 10PM! I have also seen them lurking about before 8am. Is there a graveyard shift we need to know about?

[To be honest, I genuinely feel bad for these folks- there are few jobs out there where the general public meets your mere appearance with frantic, paranoid Where-Am-I-Parked? mental checklists and hostile glances.]

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[watchamacallit.livejournal.com]

My street doesn't become permit parking only until midnight, which is also when sdtreet cleaning starts. So ticketing doesn't get going until the midnight hours.