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Citizen complaint of the day: That's a lot of parking tickets
By adamg on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 12:57pm
A concerned citizen reports on a car that has been sitting on Gates Street "for weeks without moving" (see earlier report) - but whose owner seems a bit put out by the parking tickets he or she keeps getting. Time for a little hook action, the citizen urges.
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Do we know the car is abandoned?
You can pay online by license plate or registration lookup. Obviously somebody is moving the tickets inside the vehicle.
If there is a residents sticker, a paid registration and tickets are paid, I doubt anyone can do a thing about this vehicle.
srsly. i have a bunch of
srsly. i have a bunch of orange envelopes in my car that were paid online.
good to know theres people with nothing better to do than speculate while photographing the interior of my car. its obviously not abandoned, so mind yr own business.
I could be wrong but I think
I could be wrong but I think you are still supposed to move your car around or it can be towed.
nope
When i lived in DC you had to move your car every 72 hours. I've never heard of a similar rule here. Only exception is every 2 weeks in areas where there is scheduled street cleaning.
Yeah I think you're right. If
Yeah I think you're right. If it has a RPP and everything is legal then it can sit. They'll just have to move it now that street cleaning is here.
Massachusetts law (c. 90 §
Massachusetts law (c. 90 § 22C) says a vehicle can be deemed abandoned and removed after standing 72 hours.
It should be anyways. If I
It should be anyways. If I went to a public park. Set up a blanket, and left it there all year round, preventing anyone else from using that spot, people would be upset. Even if I came and used it once a week, its still taking over a public shared resource, and keeping it all for myself.
Space Saving
So we can apply this to space saving during the winter too?
*ducks*
It's a little bit different
The car that isn't shoveled out after 72 hours would be abandoned under state law. The spot that is saved for 10 hours while the car and driver are at work wouldn't, since there is evidence that the car has been moved, thus showing use.
As for the argument that the driver is basically claiming public space as there own, let's be thankful our largest snow this winter was 6 inches. I'll be going now.
Ya I know Waquiot
I know.. I was just being a twit :) cuz you know, Space Savers is a hot topic here during the winter.
Medford is 48 hours
And the old people with nothing better to do will gladly call it in.
I distinctly remember cars on H Street
Outside my apartment, being buried under snow for the entire winter. Never moving. Once the winter rules for street sweeping ended, they claimed the spot until spring.
That was before resident parking. Not sure if it's the same case now.
people with nothing better to
Wow, you're new around here (both Boston and UHub), aren't you?
That is one of the reasons
That is one of the reasons that the fines associated tickets need to go up considerably and repeat offenders need to be towed. Delivery companies and people who park in neighborhoods where parking costs more than a ticket don't care about breaking the law.
Higher fines?
Seriously? Are you a biker?
...or someone privileged
...or someone privileged enough to think that anyone who misreads a traffic sign or loses track of time deserves to lose what amounts to a day's pay for some people.
True, I have a good friend
True, I have a good friend while attending BU many years ago, thought it cheaper just to live with the tickets. By the end of his time at BU, he had a full shoebox. It was easier for him and he settled upon graduation.
Delivery companies? Trucks
Delivery companies? Trucks that need to park for 3 minutes to make a delivery are the least of the problems.
3 minutes? You're joking,
3 minutes? You're joking, right? Delivery trucks are usually double-parked in bike lanes for deliveries for the entire block for up to 10 minutes on any given day... it's not like there's just one truck per day either. It's multilple trucks blocking bike lanes off and on ALL day long. If you biked in the city, you'd know what I mean.
indeed.
this was taken yesterday by a friend (hi buddy if you're reading this, totally stole your pic, thanks)
i think a good protest would be bicyclists parking in car travel lanes, personally. maybe between 4p-6p on a friday?
My thoughts exactly. Just
My thoughts exactly. Just because someone has parking tickets in their car, doesn't mean that they are unpaid. Most people pay their tickets online these days. I hope the person who was snooping in people's vehicles and posting photos online isn't also snapping photos through people's bedroom windows as well... that's just plain creepy.
Well if someone was parked
Well if someone was parked right outside of my home without moving for more than a month I would probably be snooping a little too. Reason being is that it's nice to get a spot right out front once in awhile. You can't just park your car and act like its your personal spot.
We are making alot of assumptions here.
First, the owner might in, well, in the hospital, correct? Or otherwise incapacitated? And the reporter did not say that it has been outside for a month or more but just said it has been outside for weeks. Could be two weeks, three weeks or more.
Just because a public parking spot is in front of your house does not mean you have automatic dibs on it.
Never said anything about
Never said anything about dibs. I was just pointing out that it's nice to have a shot at that spot once in awhile. Oh and is this person leaving the hospital or limping out to crumple up tickets and throw them on the seat??? Prolly not
If you do not drive your car
If you do not drive your car much, be sure to move it at least once a week. Even moving it one space will be obvious to most observers.
If you will be out of town for a while, you might consider asking a friend to move it for you.
These are suggestions from City of Boston. Seems simple to me.
exactly
I don't "own" the spot right in front of my house more than anyone else, but when a vehicle with out of state tags is left there for a month I'm calling it in. And I have, in this exact scenario.
Just because you own a home
Just because you own a home in the city of Boston, doesn't mean the street directly in front of your home is your personal property. In a city, we share resources. Maybe the person who is parked in the same spot all of the time has an illness and no longer drives. If that's the case I suppose you could call the police on your neighbor and have their car towed. I see the same cars parked in front of the building I live in all of the time, but I'm not paranoid enough to think there's something sinister going on. Get to know your neighbors and maybe you'll feel a little safer in your community.
Yeah, but
It is also not someone else's personal property.
The City says you gotta move your car every 72 hours. Myself, I'm okay with once a week, since you should be driving that bit just to make sure the systems are running. If you own a car and have no plans to drive the car, you should get it off the street.
This kind of makes me wish we had a system like they do in the suburbs, where on street parking is banned from 2 to 6 AM.
Get to know my neighbors???
Get to know my neighbors??? Yeah I do know all my neighbors and they are not the problem. Get a clue.
And again nobody is saying
And again nobody is saying they own the spot in front of their house. But again it is nice to have a shot at that spot and not come home every night to a car full of orange tags that isn't going anywhere.
What are the tickets for?
They are still violating some parking rules, since they getting tickets. After a while, paid or not, the enforcement should be increased if the fines are not discouraging the repeated violations.
If a car is an immediate
If a car is an immediate problem, like blocking a driveway or fire hydrant, it gets reported and towed.
If somebody's merely not adhering to a regulation and they're willing to pay the (often exorbitant) fine, I say let them pay it. If someone is dumb enough to keep paying $50 tickets instead of going to a garage or renting a spot, that's their problem.
this complainer
i wish they would get kicked in the groin
Don't you mean creepy person
Don't you mean creepy person looking in people's car complaint of the day?
I think of it as proof that
I think of it as proof that this persons an asshole and should move their car once an awhile. It's not their spot to own for extended periods of time. It's all about the proof:)
The comments aren't what I expected
I expected people to be ragging on the car owner, not the complainer.
UHub always has unforeseen drama!
UHub has been randomly
UHub has been randomly assigning us new identities for April Fools. No idea who is really commenting...
usually complainers
dont go around photographing people's private property and asking for their cars to be towed based on assumptions
or at least, not the ones discussed here.
Bait Car?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_car
Lol!!!
Lol!!!