Snow emergency

[easy-wind.livejournal.com]

If you are as outraged as me about the City of Somerville handing out $50 parking tickets for violating a snow emergency when... THERE WASN'T A FLAKE OF SNOW ON THE GROUND, I encourage you to write to Mayor Curtatone to express your views:

JCurtatone@ci.somerville.ma.us

Comments

Re: the new snow emergency policy

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. *sigh* I personally think that declaring a snow emergency starting with a prediction of only 4 inches is overkill. I mean, hello, this is New England. We're supposed to be able to deal with 4 freaking inches of snow.

I also think that if they ticket or tow you because of a storm that's supposedly coming 6 hours from the time of the announcement, but it never actually snows (or hardly snows at all), they should waive the fee, or at least cut it in half.

The other thing that gets me about the costs of various types of tickets in Somerville is that they're even more expensive than the same types of parking infractions in Cambridge! I like Somerville, but it's not all that, y'know? There is no good reason that a parking infraction that would cost me $15 in Cambridge should cost me $25 or $30 in Somerville.

Re: the new snow emergency policy

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

The only thing that really annoyed me is that I live down an alleyway but park on the nearest street. The police sure as hell don't drive down the alley to announce the snow emergency and the nearest street is too far away to hear the announcement.

Re: the new snow emergency policy

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

I personally don't give a rat's ass about the convenience of car drivers, but I agree that describing 4" of snow over the course of a day as an "emergency" is ridiculous.