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Many cars remained parked on the odd side of the street last night and no one appears to have been ticketed or towed. Having the street adequately plowed would open up parking for days to come and this is very difficult when the street is all parked up. Just wondering if there are plans to enforce the ban in the future.
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Acknowledged Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Verified Official)
Enforce the ban (Guest)
cranky (Registered User)
eastrockcookie (Guest)
Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
eastrockcookie (Guest)
Lawrence Street Neighbor (Guest)
Res (Registered User)
dd (Guest)
Natalya (Guest)
Foster resident (Guest)
It would also make sense that Yale shuttles don't go down narrow streets (Foster, for one) until the plows have completed their work.
eastrockcookie (Guest)
I can't disagree med Lawrence Street Neighbor, Res or Natalya, and maybe my comment was phrased a little too callously. Even so, I would find it absolutely hopeless if the city went out and poured a lot of resources into the ticket/towing ban given that the enforcement of this ban is in itself quite costly. You might say that having city employees (cops, parking authority) do the work of ticketing pays for itself given that these fines go into city coffers. But the city has to contract with tow companies to get the cars out the streets and that stuff ain't cheap. Why on earth should tax dollars fund the business of these companies? As Natalya puts it (and LS Neighbor implicitly does so as well), the problem is grounded in the unreliability of city snow plows. Meanwhile, the problem of people taking a spot that someone else spent a lot of energy shoveling out would not and could not be a problem if we could rely on city plows to come and do snow removal.
PUT DIFFERENTLY, the problem is not that people like myself sometimes ignore the ban or that some people (not me) take the spot you dug out for yourself: the problem is above all that the plows take forever to get into East Rock. If ticketing and towing has the potential to effect real change, imagine the change that could be brought about by the knowledge that the streets would in fact be plowed within 24 hours of a storm (and yes, that's entirely reasonable: this is not Chicago). In my experience, that knowledge has not exactly been a given. Sorry for the ranting, I'm just really puzzled about this outpouring of support for policing over plowing. I get the claim that policing and plowing go hand in hand. But let's put some more weight behind the demand for more and faster plowing, please.
Natalya (Guest)
Foster resident (Guest)
Closed Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department - Daytime Parking Enforcement Supervisor (Verified Official)