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silver vehicle has been parked in front of 29 Durso Ave since Saturday and has not moved. vehicle is taking up a spot for other residence of the street. from my understanding you are not allowed to park a vehicle for more than 72 hours without moving it. with winter parking in affect we all must fight for parking spots here and leaving a car in a parking spot for 4+ days is not fair to other residence.
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City of Malden (Verified Official)
TeamT (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Interesting TeamToby, maybe the city can do something about it seeing that they restrict our parking in the winter to 1 side of the street for what reason, I'm not sure because it's not for emergency vehicles because the plows don't push the snow back enough. My truck got hit twice last year, once by an engine and they didn't even come back or send anyone back later to assess the hit and run. When I reported it to the police station they laughed and said they'd send a cruiser down but one never showed up.... great that I pay tax dollars and all these fees to the city and as a resident I get nothing in return but wasting more money to fix my truck....
And about Kings, maybe the city could fine them or tow their vehicles, but it takes 3 days for them to do that because a vehicle isn't abandoned unless it's been parked for 3 days.
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TeamT (Registered User)
ASoroka... I have been in contact with the city councilman and parking enforcement multiple times regarding the unfairness of the king gas station parking. I had parking enforcement here yesterday discussing this issue. there were two cars parked in front of my home that belong to the gas station. I am a senior citizen that has every right to pull up to her own home grab all her packages out of the car and go into my house. But no I have to park down the street in front of my neighbor's house and do this because they are constantly in front of my house. After parking enforcement spoke with them they removed the two vehicles and replaced them with another one in front of my home. There was a car parked in front of my home over the Thanksgiving holiday and removed last week. It had been there almost one month. They removed the car after the ticket was issued and just parked it in front of the bus stop. Did you ever notice when you drive down Salem Street towards the light on Broadway that there are always cars parked just after the bus stop? Those cars belong to the gas station. Traffic has to go around them in order to get to the light.
All the cars parked on Fulton Street down to the Linden projects all belong to the king gas station. I was told via parking enforcement that all these cars parked in the neighborhoods belong to people who are coming down from New Hampshire and parking them in the Broadway area just to get on the bus so they can get to Malden station and take the T. I just looked at the guy and laughed . That was the most ridiculous excuse I have ever heard.
I have asked the king gas station owners to please stop parking in front of my house they just stare at me and say it's public parking or they feign , 'we don't speak English'.
It takes a village to raise a child they say? Well it's going to take multiple neighborhoods to fix the unfairness of the king gas parking violations in the Broadway area. Good luck
Steph (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
TeamT (Registered User)
Mcc (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
Mcc (Registered User)
Resident winter parking is difficult enough without having repair shops cluttering things.
It would seem that the only reasonable solution is to do as other communities have done and have NUMBERED/BAR CODED RESIDENT and GUEST parking passes/window stickers.
This way, parking enforcement can simply scan the pass, or check the issued number and see if its legitimately parked. Duplicate (photo copied) passes would easily pop up as fraudulent. Immediate tickets/fines for fake/duplicate passes could be enforced, and there would be no questions as to a car's right to park overnight.
Here's the question: are residents ready to financially step up and support a program like this? I would. I would be ok with having a yearly $5 or $10 per car sticker registry program. Perhaps one fee for the initial resident parking sticker, and then a discounted renewal rate that could be quickly done online as well as a visit to City Hall.
This would require GUEST passes to be issued as well...im sure things would get a bet complicated there...
Anonymous (Registered User)
Acknowledged Parking Department Malden (Verified Official)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
Going to Disney....Maybe (Registered User)
Parking Department Malden (Verified Official)
Mcc (Registered User)
Parking Department Malden (Verified Official)
Mcc (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
Anonymous (Registered User)
How would they know? Are they going to call every license plate into dispatch? Guess that is complaint driven too, which I feel is a ridiculous law. If I pay taxes on my home I should be able to park in front of my house.
Closed Parking Department Malden (Verified Official)