When meters and signs conflict
By adamg - Wed, 05/28/2008 - 3:11pm.
Steve Garfield discovers why parking seemed so easy on that road behind Eastern Standard along the turnpike in Kenmore Square today. And now he owes the city of Boston $40.
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Question
Why do we call them parking "meters". Shouldn't we call them parking "miles" here in America?
Just playin'. :)
Because when you take out your aggression on them
They become kill-o-meters.
well played
i did get a good chuckle out of that one.
or, with the conversion, 2.2 giggles.
5 seconds of your life instead of 60:
He parked directly opposite a street sign that said "street cleaning 1st and 3rd Wednesday". And got a $40 ticket. Those scallywags! They ticketed him on a 4th Wednesday when the sign said 3rd!
My response, in a Ben Stiller voice: "Wooooow."
And, "call BTD and ask to have the obviously-wrong ticket fixed."
Opposite side of street
Usually when a street is cleaned every other week on one side, the opposite side is the other 2 weeks. He shows a sign for the opposite side of the street that says "1st & 3rd". Just a few feet down the street from where he's at:
Google StreetView zoomed in on sign marking his side for 2nd & 4th Wednesdays
Ding, $40. He's actually more lucky that he wasn't towed on top of the cost of the ticket.
fact:
he is lucky.
state police (yes, state police) slapped my fiancee with a $25 ticket and towed the car last week from park drive & beacon. Apparently the boston police officers were busy doing their jobs...
$135 towing charges and storage on top of the ticket (took two days before we noticed it was gone, woops!).
fact #2: from the looks of it, the street still hasn't been cleaned since last november!
If it was on Park
Then Boston PD has nothing to do with it. Park Drive is also known as "MA Route 2" from the BU Bridge to Beacon and as such it falls to the Staties to ticket on it instead of Boston PD.
State route = state police jurisdiction?
Huntington Avenue is MA Route 9, but as far as I know, Boston police and meter maids still ticket there, not Staties.
Hearsay
This is what I heard. It's also why the city doesn't put meters on Park, because it's not "their street" to collect on, it's the state's. But unlike a lot of things I know, I can't back this up with anything more than word of mouth, sorry.
The fact that he got a Statie ticket does jive with how I've heard it though.
I don't know how this relates to other state roads, sorry...I've only ever heard this about Park Dr.
Shed some light
DCR snow/ice removal page
Seems like the DCR has claim over Park Drive (main road only, whatever that means), so it's a "State" road in that regard.
All your space are belong to us
Seems like the DCR has claim over Park Drive (main road only, whatever that means)
That's the part of Park Drive that runs from the Riverway along the Back Bay Fens to Charlesgate West. DCR/ State Police jurisdiction extends as far as Beacon St (Audubon Circle). THE Fenway does the same along the east side of the park. DCR street sweeping map and schedule (PDF).
For best parking prophylaxis, look for the "Tow Zone" flag across the top of the street sign. A lot of the roads adjacent to the Fens are posted for resident parking 24/7, and the State Police are particularly relentless about towing before and during Sox games -- a good thing for those of us who live here, not so much for fans not wise in the ways of the city, starry-eyed to find a free space mere blocks from Fenway Park. Welcome to Boston, pal...
Numbers vs. jurisdiction
A state-numbered route is not necessarily a state-jurisdiction route, though they typically coincide. That's why you see "state highway ends" signs in places where the city/town has jurisdiction over a numbered route.
does rt 2 continue past beacon?
it was parked south of beacon on the stretch to fenway t stop.
not that it matters. we unhappily paid it since we were parked illegally.
More than a few feet
Wow. That sign was a bunch of clicks down the street...
Um...
How did you get onto Newbury, then?
There's another sign at the corner of Newbury and Brookline. I only chose the other one because it was more legible in StreetView.
Zing.
nice catch
good job on finding that street view
Thanks
Sorry about the ticket, though.
nice catch
I appealed the ticket.