But no schadenfreude?
Last night I decided to park on the street. I don’t know why. But that meant that today I had to move my car, because I parked on street-cleaning side. And so I did move my car. And as I sit (in my comfy chair! Outweighing your pets has its privileges) working and staring out the front window, I see that a half dozen cars never moved and — worse yet — no one is ticketing them! Why do I not get the privilege of watching lots of people get the tickets they so richly deserve? It’s not just that I want other people to be miserable too . . .
March 16th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Yep, signs that it is no longer between 1 December and 1 March. I did not see tickets being issued either.
In Boston, the streets are only cleaned once a month.
March 16th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
I haven’t been looking every day, but I rather want to. And it’s not like they actually clean them twice weekly here (hah), it’s just that this can net the city lots of money in parking tickets. On my block, I think they never clean the street. (And, intriguingly, the no parking time is *different* on the sides of the street.)
March 17th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
I have seen (in summer, not in March) the tracks on the road left by the road sweeper as it veers around a parked car. Those cars do usually have a ticket. Ha ha, chump.
Boston (well, Cambridge) parking tickets are also much cheaper ($20) than Montreal tickets.
I got a ticket once for parking my car in the wrong direction.
March 17th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Boston tickets are cheaper because they have otherwise higher taxes.
Oh . . . wait, no.
Boston tickets are cheaper because the state govt doesn’t have a hate-on for the city?
I was *shocked* when I moved to the US to see that you could just park in either direction and not get a ticket.