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

[modstgodds.livejournal.com]

The Harvard Vanguard lot (AKA Buena Vista Lot) has a number of spaces that are marked for business permit. Otherwise, your time limit there is 3 hours.

Be careful with visitor permits (re: cold_cold_water post). You have to park within the block of the address to use them and the parking enforcement folk like to watch those closely (at least they watched me closely when I was using one). I got a couple of tickets most of which were not valid and I contested them and won but you don't really want to have to go through that...I assume.

Welcome to Davis! (I used to live in Melrose.)