Move ya cahs

[prog]

Again woken up by the magic voice to dive into some clothes and rescue my car from being swept up in the weekly street cleaning frenzy, because I always park on the wrong side of the street the night before, because I'm dumb.

SO! I get to my car perhaps a minute or less after the magic voice pulls me from bed, only to find that it's aleady been ticketed. ?! What cruel game were they playing? Unless... uh oh. Well, I wanted coffee and it was raining, go just got in anyway and drove to Carberry's. When I got back, I saw: a tow truck, preparing to haul away the car of one of my fellow inattentive streetmates.

A tow truck!! In Somerville!! I don't know why this happened today, when last month my car was ticketed and then left alone. But, I suppose that the towing threats I'd read about in the past were not, after all, just bluster.

So, my fellow Somervudlian motorists: Bewaaaare.

And this Carberry's scone is cold and has dark brown splotches in it that don't taste like rasins which I'm eating anyway because grrrrrrr feed the fire feed the fire.

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Consider yourself lucky

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

Does Somerville have a budget shortage like many other cities in the country? That could be part of the reason for the ticket. The city also usually gets a certain amount of $ from the motorist, extortion money, to get their car back.

You're lucky you even get any warning. Out here, Berkeley just raised the sweeping ticket to $30 (along with raising all the other rates 'n fines to fix their budget), Oakland was considering raising it $64 (!) and San Francisco is expecting to raise another $12 million from higher meter prices and $21 million from higher parking ticket fines. If your car is towed in SF, there's a good chance that any valuables left in it won't be there when you go to the lot to pick it up. Oh, and the board of supes voted in a plan to add 1,400 parking meters to Golden Gate Park, but public outrage is forcing them to reconsider.

Re: Consider yourself lucky

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yep, the budget is in bad shape here; it's pretty rotten throughout MA, really. I'm not surprised at the ticket (it's the third S-ville sweepy-ticket I've received so far, after all) but I am surprised that they've apparently ramped up from warn-then-ticket, to warn&ticket-then-tow.

The Boston and SF bay areas are sister cities in more ways than one. :)