Out of towners could pay more to park on the street during Sox games

ProvSox (soon, at least).

It's incredibly cheap to park in the city, and who is it discouraging? I'd recommend you replace "people" with "me".

That said, the PawSox have a pretty stacked team this year, so enjoy!

Don't come.

Unfortunately, too few people think like you, which means sold out games and expensive parking lots. Therefore, the only recourse the city has is to jack up the fines to make sure residents can park.

Also, Park and Yawkey League games are free, though if you BYOB you might get into trouble.

There is excellent MBTA access to Fenway park at least until Baker guts that. The T is cheap. If you're coming from out of town you can always park at one of the distant T stations and take the train in.

But regardless, no one cares. Boston is booming. Real Estate is at record highs. Business are doing better then they have in years. The Sox are the highest priced ballpark in the country and they still manage to sell out most games.

So if the fact you can't get below-market rate on-street parking keeps you away no one is going to care. It sounds like you weren't shopping at any business except those run by the Red Sox anyway.

I guess.

This isn't a penalty on "out-of-towners", and it isn't a matter of raising the rates on people who park legally, either in public or private spaces/lots. The new regulation increases the penalty when someone parks in a resident space without a valid resident sticker during game times. It applies equally to someone whose car is registered in Weston, someone who has a resident sticker for a different Boston neighborhood, someone who lives in the Fenway but who didn't bother to get a sticker for their car, and it applies equally if they came to go to the baseball game or to eat one last Whopper at the famous Boylston Street BK.

If somebody cannot figure out how to get to a balllpark serviced by three Green Line branches, the commuter rail, a zillion buses, cabs, and even Uber/Lyft, they have problems going beyond whether they can watch a baseball game.

(edited--corrected from 2 GL branches to 3)

Are you aware that parking regulations and traffic regulations are enforced by different agencies?

It isn't. And you knew that when you posted.

"Space saving" involves some asserting a particular right to a single space based on circumstances. Typically, the circumstances are temporary.

"Resident parking" involves designation sections of on street parking in a particular neighborhood for residents of said neighborhood. No one has a right to a particular section of on street parking over any other resident of the neighborhood. For example, both of us live in x, which has resident parking because we are close to the T. I can park in front of your house and vice versa. Also, there is a legal prohibition of drivers from outside of the area parking in designated areas. Space saving is more tradition and "common law". You will not get ticketed for moving somone's cone and parking, though I don't recommend it.

Got it, chief?

If you were going to drive to the Fenway Park area, regardless of date or time, would you ever find a spot? It's pretty much impossible as it is, especially in the neighborhoods. Those spots would most likely be taken by people who work at the events and bars, not people attending the events.

I mean, do people going to Red Sox games actually ever plan on finding parking spots on Peterborough St. or Boylston st? It would take you less time to park in Allston and walk probably.

Where neighborhoods contain venues that attract hordes of people, this certainly seems reasonable. I don't think, though, that the need is as strong on some backwater street in Southie. If you feel that it is, though, do feel free to contact your city council representative. Fenway residents have been working on this one for many years, so if your neighborhood has a similar situation that justifies it, I wish you the very best of luck in your efforts.