sudden enforcement of over 48 hours parking rule?

[inq.livejournal.com]

went out of town for a week last week and when i got back, the car had 4 $20 tickets for being parked in one spot for over 48 hours. i've lived here a long time and never have i seen this enforced on my particular street (it's a little one-way street near davis in somerville). so, for $80 i guess i should have just driven to the airport and parked there, but i wondered if anyone else had been suprised by this arbitrary and capricious enforcement? (yes, that's the language from my letter of appeal.) also, at least one of these tickets was a mere 8 hours after the one previous, which doesn't seem to make much sense...

new parking officer, perhaps? i noticed a couple of other people on the street had a nice little ticket collection going as well...

Comments

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

not everybody that lives in the city has a job that's t-accessible, in terms of location, timing, or both. you tell me a way to get to needham at 1 in the morning via T. i don't think i should have to not live in the city just because i need a car to get to work.

So you'd like to see better public transit?

[turil.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you wish you could find a suitable job that was closer to your home? It would be even better if you had both options, of course, so you could feel like you weren't trapped doing something you didn't like.

There was an impressively creative mayor in Brazil several years back that who was trying to solve congestion and pollution problems. One of the solutions he came up with that to start a program where people who lived in one area of the city but worked in another area of the city could easily trade jobs with people in the opposite live/work areas, so that more people could live near where they worked. I'm not sure how well that would work around Somerville, but it's an interesting proposal nonetheless. I'm looking for a job right now, and it's frustrating that the help wanted ads usually don't include a street address. Even something as simple as having a distance search function for job searching would be really helpful for folks, especially if it was accurate to a mile or less (I need to be able to walk to work, so I won't get a job more than 2-3 miles away, but I'd obviouslt prefer to find something that's less than a 1/2 mile away).

Re: So you'd like to see better public transit?

[foxalbers.livejournal.com]

Most people do not live in a fantasy world where suitable jobs grow on trees.

But hey, if there's anyone reading this board who lives in Burlington and would like to trade their job in Davis as Marketing Director of a midlevel engineering software firm for my job in Burlington as Marketing Director of a midlevel engineering software firm, I'd be more than happy to make the switch!