Comments on: Citywide resident permit parking?

By: Des

Des — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:23:33 +0000

The parking situation in Cambridge and Sommerville is a joke, My wife just took my son to the Cambridge hospital and parked on Line street right next to the Cambridge hospital on Line street.

Anyway it appears after googling line street that half of Line street is in Cambridge and the other half is in Sommerville. How were suppossed to recognise this is beyond me there is no Welcome to Sommerville sign and more than half of the signs on this street are faded and so cant be read.

The signs need to be upgraded because the $50 fine I will have to pay would be better spent caring for my autistic son than wasted on Sommerville.

I’m sorry but I live in Cambridge but literally on the border with Sommerville and probably 80% of my money gets spent in Sommerville supermarkets and stores. Sommervilles taken enough of my money.. the least they can do is put clear signage on Line Street so people can be informed where they are parking.

People who live near the border of Cambridge/Boston/Sommerville sooner or later will get ticketed due to bad signage. I wouldnt mind if when I paid the $50 fine they used it to upgrade the signs on the street but they won’t sadly.

By: Janine D.

Janine D. — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:37:59 +0000

There is a car on my street now – for two weeks – racking up tickets. The owner comes out and throws the ticket on the ground. I will bet that when he requests a hearing his excuse will be he never got the tickets.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:21:24 +0000

I just got off a 311 call in regards to this, the operator insists that the city of Somerville does not have to give you individual ticket for each ticket you received. Instead you will know all of the mysterious tickets when you get your hearing notice. So you may receive 3 tickets on your wind shield, but in fact 5 in your mailing notice. Does anyone know if this is the standard?

By: Daniel Shugrue

Daniel Shugrue — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:49:29 +0000

Hi Regina — I’m happy to help. Contact me dbshugrueATgmailDOTcom

By: regina

regina — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:50:38 +0000

Laura and Janine, i really appreciate you guys helping me out! if anyone else would like to help me, send me an email at reginap@bu.edu and i’ll get back to you with some of my questions!
thanks!

By: LauraM

LauraM — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:09:54 +0000

I’d be happy to help as well, Regina.

By: Janine D.

Janine D. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:09:36 +0000

Regina-I would love to help you with your article.

By: regina

regina — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:54:33 +0000

I’m currently a journalism student and i was wondering if I could talk with any of you via email more about your thoughts on the new parking rules and fees for a piece that i am writing. if you are interested, let me know and i will post my email address!
thanks in advance

By: Janine D.

Janine D. — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:17:08 +0000

Barry-there are states with reciprocal argeements regarding paying tickets in other states. I will find out the states that follow these agreements. MA really should have something like this so there is no further revenue loss.

By: Barry Rafkind

Barry Rafkind — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:26:29 +0000

Julia, in order for the RMV or another state to know that someone has outstanding unpaid tickets, there would have to be an electronic system in place to track all the tickets, and I highly doubt that exists. Has anyone heard of anyone having their registration denied because of this? I would be surprised if the state really has such a system to keep track of the tickets issued in all the towns and cities in the Commonwealth, especially when different municipalities use different ticketing systems. I know that Somerville just recently upgraded its ticketing system to a new vendor [link to city's press release]. I'm even more skeptical of there existing an inter-state ticketing system.