Results tagged “parkingtickets”

Wicked Local Somerville's blog reports that, anecdotally at least, Somerville's parking enforcement has gone all ED 209 on the people of Somerville, spraying them with the parking ticket equivalent of unjustified machine gun bullets. With that in mind, we wonder how the writers at Wicked Local Somerville feels about the prospect of some $500 journalism whore scooping them on the potential parking ticket abuse story.

The Transportation Department and Mayor Tom Menino want you to know that, if you get a parking ticket, you can pay for your ticket if you donate a toy "of equal or greater value than the fine on the ticket." As Amy Derjue at Boston Daily points out, "some lame toy from Family Dollar" will not do. If you have a parking ticket that you've been putting off paying, the offer doesn't apply to you....