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[Boston] Because, really.
Jul. 2nd, 2009 09:40 pmNote: This is all Boston-local stuff. The rest of you likely don't care at all. :)
You know, if I was in Cambridge, Medford, or any of the other towns surrounding Somerville, I'd get together with a bunch of businesses and take out a half-page (maybe a full-page. who knows?) in the Globe, thanking Mayor Curtatone for attempting to pass a series of punitive parking regulations. If people risk a $40 parking ticket every time they try to patronize a business in Somerville*, they'll take their business elsewhere, probably to the surrounding towns.
I wish the Mayor the best of luck in raising revenue through parking violations, and may he take care that the twin figleaves of "take public transit"** and "people not paying excise tax"*** don't blow away too quickly.
* Because there certainly aren't enough parking meters (or non-residential streets to put them on, really), and so parking for businesses overflows onto residential streets.
** With the exception of Davis Square on one end, and Sullivan Square (kind of) on the other, Somerville only gets bus service (which kills the convenience factor), and it's not like it runs past 12:30am anyway.
*** A bit of a problem, sure. OTOH, for an average car 5 years or older, a single permit parking ticket is most of the yearly excise tax.
You know, if I was in Cambridge, Medford, or any of the other towns surrounding Somerville, I'd get together with a bunch of businesses and take out a half-page (maybe a full-page. who knows?) in the Globe, thanking Mayor Curtatone for attempting to pass a series of punitive parking regulations. If people risk a $40 parking ticket every time they try to patronize a business in Somerville*, they'll take their business elsewhere, probably to the surrounding towns.
I wish the Mayor the best of luck in raising revenue through parking violations, and may he take care that the twin figleaves of "take public transit"** and "people not paying excise tax"*** don't blow away too quickly.
* Because there certainly aren't enough parking meters (or non-residential streets to put them on, really), and so parking for businesses overflows onto residential streets.
** With the exception of Davis Square on one end, and Sullivan Square (kind of) on the other, Somerville only gets bus service (which kills the convenience factor), and it's not like it runs past 12:30am anyway.
*** A bit of a problem, sure. OTOH, for an average car 5 years or older, a single permit parking ticket is most of the yearly excise tax.
