Parking Regulations

You can see parking signs almost on every street, avenue and so on. Before I purchased car, I didn't pay attention these signs. When I bought my car, I had to spend time to learn what these signs tell. According to street's largeness, neighborhood's population, how far is the neighborhood from downtown or so forth, parking regulations change. So parking rules are very strict and if you violate them, your car will towed by a tow truck. As far as I am concerned tow companies are working on behalf of municipalities. So they are ready to tow your car to make money. Attention please!

Different street has different parking regulations. Sometimes you will just get ticket if you park disallowed spots. Last week a friend of mine who lives in Cambridge visited me. Next morning we noticed that my friend's car got a ticket ($40) because the car had no Allston Brighton parking permit. As many other street or avenue, Long Ave (I live on the Ave.) requires "resident parking permit". So if you are not resident in a neighborhood, probably you can not park there. Or you will pay parking meter to park. Some streets are free for everyone and you don't need to be a resident to park. The other option, if you have visitor has a car, you can park his car your house's drive way.

But Cambridge city gives its residents visitor parking permit, so when you visit your friend you will not meet any parking problem there. Boston City has no any practice like that.

Parking is free on Sundays in Boston. So I went the Mugar with my car this Sunday because of free parking. Otherwise I would have gone with train. By the way, in Miami, you should pay even Sunday.  And moreover parking charge is very high.