Title
Archive for the 'Living Here' Category
Somerville Tightens Recycling Regulations
The City of Somerville has cracked down on recycling requirements. Get it right or you’ll be bringing a full bin back into the house!
Prices paid for recyclables have plunged and recycling materials contaminated by banned items can cause entire loads to be rejected by the recycling facilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Did You Get Your Cambridge Resident Parking Sticker?
Because if you didn’t you might have a parking ticket on your car when you get home tonight.
The deadline for having a 2009 Cambridge resident parking sticker on your car was January 31st and the ticketers will be out in full force today.
Registration forms to get the new stickers were mailed out back in November but there are always plenty of people who leave it to the last minute. As the deadline nears, the line wraps through the lobby of the City Hall Annex building on Broadway at Inman. Head on over if you’ve yet to get your new sticker – but be prepared to wait in line!
One new twist this year – despite the outdated instructions on the sticker – new regulations require the parking sticker to be placed on the lower corner of the windshield on the driver’s side. Thus ends a long standing tradition of amassing a collection of the annual stickers on your passenger window or back windshield. Long time residents displayed them as a badge of honor and it was fun to see all of the photographs of Cambridge used on the stickers through the years.
This year’s sticker has a photo by Israel Ferraz of the clock tower at Cambridge City Hall. The winning photograph was one of 125 submitted in the 2009 resident parking permit photo contest held by the City.
What? Another Ticket? 10 Common Cambridge Parking Violations
The new City of Cambridge Traffic and Parking Department booklet has a list of ten common parking violations that don’t require a sign. So even if you’ve got a current Cambridge parking sticker and you’ve checked the street signs, you’ll get a Cambridge parking ticket for any of these violations:
- Blocking a handicapped ramp
- Parking within ten feet of a fire hydrant
- Parking in a crosswalk
- Parking in an intersection
- Parking on a sidewalk
- Non-resident parking more than 24 hours without moving the vehicle
- Parking less than ten feet from a travel lane
- Commercial vehicle parking overnight
- Parking over one foot from the curb
- Parking in the wrong direction
My brother was outraged when he was nicked for the last item on the list. Hey, that goes over in South Boston but not in Cambridge!
Copyright © 2008 Centers And Squares Log in Design by Real Estate Tomato Powered by Tomato Blogs
