Waiting out the sweeper

[prog]

Dragged myself outta bed, like I do more or less once a week outside of the winter, on five hours of sleep to drive my car down to the square and have a coffee while I wait for enough people in my neighborhood to go to work so's that I can drive back and park my car in a non-tickety spot. It's a Sweepy Day! And, once again, I had to use my car on the evening before a Sweepy Day (more like: I felt like using it, forgetting the Sweepiness of the following Day), and by the time I was ready to park it again all the non-sweepy spots by my house had been taken.

Another facet of car ownership I won't miss. Taking 'er in for repairs for sure next Monday (I talked to the ABJ Auto guy yesterday), immediately after which she's getting a one-way trip to Bangor. (And I'll be taking a one-way Concord Trailways back to South Station.)

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Also I finally paid for my account just now, so have won back access to my icons besides Jenna and the South Park underpants gnome. (However, I just deleted the gnome, intended for posts about my entrepreneur ideas, in favor of an even more appropriate cartoon character. I'll bust him out later.)

Comments

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

How often is Sweepy Day in Somerville? It seems to happen a lot...at least they (someone?) would warn you to move them, if I remember right, without trying to extract the max. amt. of money from you?

One part of living in Berkeley/Oakland I won't miss: not having to deal with the sweeping, which got even worse because they needed money so they doubled the cost of the tickets ($48 in Oakland, about the same in Berkeley). Just last week I prevented $96 from going to Oakland's govt. by warning a neighbor and the landlord that it was time to move their cars.

Having a garage now is really, really nice.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Every week, except in the winter (when one deals with frequent but unpredictable snow emergencies instead).

And the city has zero interest in warning anyone about anything, when it comes to parking enforcement. Fines collected through parking violations are actually a major source of revenue that the city depends upon.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize it's every week in Somerville; in Cambridge it's once a month. And there's someone from the city driving around an hour before reminding people it's street cleaning.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yep... how I miss those days. I'm pretty sure we don't get the loudspeaker-reminders, either.

(And yet, I managed to get ticketed & towed more in the six months I lived in Cambridge than in any subsequent year I lived in Somerville! Probably because I was new to the whole on-street parking thing.)

[prog.livejournal.com]

Though it may be more accurate to say "biweekly"... any given street gets swept every week, but the sides alternate.