ext_104701 ([identity profile] paradoox.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2010-05-02 12:32 am
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Can't think of a better place to ask this question - parking tickets

Does anyone have any experience with paying a parking ticket in person at the parking office in Davis Square with say $50 worth of quarters?    (unrolled)   I'm not quite mean enough to show up with $50 worth of pennies (and really don't want to spend the time sitting there while they are counted), but I want to make a statement.  I'll all honesty, I'd pay by credit card if Somerville didn't charge an extra fee (Boston doesn't).    Yes, I could mail in a check but there is no satisfaction in that.     Parking enforcement in Somerville has jumped the shark and it is time for some civil disobedience.  
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[personal profile] ron_newman 2010-05-02 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
You will annoy everyone behind you in line.

[identity profile] paradoox.livejournal.com 2010-05-02 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
And maybe if some of them are Somerville residents, they will call the mayor and annoy him.

[identity profile] miss-chance.livejournal.com 2010-05-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
You might have a nice little chat with the ladies who work behind the counter before you decide to try this tactic. They're really generally pretty nice people who have kind of crappy jobs.

Wouldn't it be more efficient to pay the ticket with a check or ten-dollar bills, and then in the time you have remaining (that you would have spent standing there in the parking office, waiting for Dot to count your quarters) write your own letter to the mayor; rather than try to induce the people waiting behind you in line to do so?

[identity profile] tastyanagram.livejournal.com 2010-05-02 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
This. If I were behind someone in line who was paying their $50 parking ticket in quarters, I'd be more likely to apologize to the person at the desk after they were gone rather than calling the mayor...about...what now?

[identity profile] paradoox.livejournal.com 2010-05-02 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a Somerville resident and it seems pretty clear that the Mayor does care what I think.
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[identity profile] perspicuity.livejournal.com 2010-05-02 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
sounds like the point? revenues via parking enforcement are a bit lame.

i hope the businesses are keeping track of the increase or decrease in their businesses and how they are impacted.

if they are making MORE money with the turn over, then that committee did the right thing, right?

and if they are making LESS, well, then it didn't.

from some posts i've been reading, some of the businesses have been impacted more than a bit. if so, they'll make their concerns known.

me? i largely took my business elsewhere. parking tax? fooey. i miss my diesel coffee, but the risk of running afoul the parking vultures is too great.

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