Davis Square Parking assistance, please!- thanks!

[marie-fnp.livejournal.com]

Hello all!

I have been hours & hours online & joined this community after reading many, many other posts about parking & tickets & street sweeping & snow emergencies... Hopefully someone out there can help me.

I am a nurse practitioner and I just got offered a new job in Davis Square (at the family practice) (yeah!) but I may not be able to take it because I am having a very tough time finding parking (I know, I know, "take the T!"- but I have 2 very small kids to get to/from daycare and I am in Melrose, and there is no easy/quick way to make the T work after factoring in a regular work day plus commute time and the time constraints of the daycare- but I digress.)

I am looking for somewhere close to the square to put my car on Mondays and Tuesdays, from about 7:45 am to about 5 pm.

I know parking is scarce in these parts but I am hoping to find someone who has (or knows someone who might have) a space that they vacate during the work day, or any business that might rent a spot for a reasonable fee.

Failing that, does anyone know the latest time I could arrive at Alewife and still (reliably) get a spot there?

I do appreciate any assistance anyone can give me, including suggestions as to where else I might post this request.

Thank you so much!

Comments

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

i'm moving out of the square and i would be happy to give you my visitor permit. it expires at the end of march 2008. you can park no more than 2 days a week in a row so i think this would work well for you. i live on orchard street between day and chester and i believe you have to use it on either orchard, day, or chester (the adjacent streets) but those are all pretty close to the family practice, closer than a lot of the other options mentioned here. let me know if you're interested and i can pop it in the mail for you.

[elements.livejournal.com]

I think technically you are supposed to leave the visitor permit for the next person who will occupy your house after you leave. The permits are issued to households, not individuals, and sometimes people have a hard time getting new visitor permits when the old one hasn't expired yet. I lived in a house where a visitor had accidentally left with and then lost one of our permits, and we were unable to get a replacement until the old one expired. It's possible it might have been different if we could have proven a new lease, but we did try having a different individual go without success. Luckily it happened near the end of our permit year, so we didn't try pulling out all the stops and just gave up and waited. This was some time ago, your mileage may vary.

So it might be better for you to leave the permit for whoever takes your apartment and not potentially subject them to that hassle.