As a resident of the South End, Marleen Nienhuis tries to bike more than she drives, but she needed her Volvo wagon to haul wreath-making supplies to the holiday sale that underwrites the Garden Club of Back Bay’s work maintaining trees along the street. When she returned to the car with time on the meter, she said, she was surprised to find a ticket tucked under the hood.
Though she accepts occasional parking tickets as a cost of city living, this one gnawed at Nienhuis enough to prompt a call, raising a good question about Boston parking rules: Can you be ticketed for parking at two spots in the same neighborhood on the same day?
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Please do a story on how many "city vehicles" are now taking spts that were previously for the public. Throughout the financial district, around city hall, around the a-1 police station. Oh and now all around the state house is for the General Court. All these places used to have public parking, now the public gets squeezed so some well paid city/state workers don't have to take the T or park in a garage.
Great point, Fairpl4y! I've noticed this, too. I love how public officials tell everyone to take the crappy T, or ride a bike, as if this is a temperate climate. They love giving this standard line of advice, as long as they can find a way around it.
yeah, and no tagging or towing on the vehicles that didn't move last night parked on the snow arteries in South Boston.
To the writer of the article - here's another angle you can follow. How can drivers be penalized for a law that is not posted? Where is this traffic rules and regs. booklet? Is it readily accessible to the publice - i.e., online? If not, I would think this could be handily challenged in court.
I wasn't sure about some of the rules, for example, some parking meters have red or yellow caps, what does that mean? (It means that there is a sign explaining some restriction and you have to look for the sign to figure out if you can park there, BTW). So I walked up to a meter maid and asked her if she could give me a quick summary of the parking regulations, and she did, very nice and polite, and it is pretty simple. If you don't know the rules, just look for a meter maid, there's usually one lurking nearby, and ask her to explain it all to you.
A quick medical appointment, you have to be kidding me. 2 hours is how long it takes to sit in the waiting room, when you show up on time.
This is insane.