Our staff is out across the city enforcing winter parking. Currently, with no snow on the ground, we are issuing a lot of warnings as a reminder. If the vehicle has already received a warning this winter season then the officer will issue a $25 fine. If we have made a mistake please contact us at 781-397-7196 to look into this matter.

Malden, MA assigned this issue to Parking Department Malden

Our staff is out across the city enforcing winter parking. Currently, with no snow on the ground, we are issuing a lot of warnings as a reminder. We did just that on Judson Street the night before this post, and so far this winter have cited 25 vehicles on Judson alone. Of course vehicles come and go all day, and enforcement isn't intended to catch every violator. With about 700 streets across the city, we'll continue that effort to educate so the next storm finds residents more prepared. The first storm was expected to be a challenge with compliance and it met that expectation, and while we towed almost 200 vehicles and ticketed hundreds upon hundreds others, we recognize that it still left violators unchecked and plows challenged.

Residents generally shovel to the extent required to extricate their vehicle from the snow. Residents may decide not to shovel out their car if they are able to remove it from the on street spot without doing so. Sometimes a resident will shovel to create a spot where snow had existed before. In both cases, the spot when it becomes vacated becomes available for use by any resident, regardless of whether they have shoveled out a spot or not. Vehicles are required to be moved at least every 72 hours for Malden residents, so someone choosing not to shovel out their car would have to be able to otherwise extricate the vehicle to comply with this regulation.

Parking on the public way is available for all to share and use on a first come first served basis. Shoveling your car out is necessary to get it out when you had the ability to use one of those public spot during a storm. It doesn't create any additional right to use the spot on an ongoing basis. That simply would be nothing short of chaos to allow that.

Can you please clarify if you are looking for additional signage to reinforce the winter parking regulations or for there to be no parking on one side of Barstow year around?

Thank you for the response. While parking is an issue in this area all year, and cars on both sides of the street often means making a 7 point turn to get out of my driveway, I am specifically asking for additional signage and enforcement of the winter parking regulations, when the addition of piles of snow make it nearly impossible to navigate with cars on both sides of the street.

If the City finds it feasible to change Barstow st. to one-side only year round, this may help during the winter time as well.

We would not add additional signage for a regulation that is temporary and on the majority of streets it changes from year to year. Regulations such as these can be found through social media and residents receive alerts through the text messaging.
We will continue to check Barstow but please note with so many streets in the city this location would not get checked more than couple times a day.

An officer will check this location shortly.

The vehicle has been issued a citation for impeding the flow of traffic.