Councilor Sharon Durkan is making moves to get cars off the road, by calling for the city to fine drivers who create a “dangerous environment” by blocking bike lanes, and ensure that pedestrians “are king” in Boston.
Boston already has a very robust parking enforcement division that aggressively tickets things like expired meters, parking in resident-only areas without a current resident sticker, etc. They also regularly ticket & tow cars when street sweeping is scheduled. It would be trivial for them to add this to their enforcement activities.
My city has Department of Finance* that issues straight up tickets for vehicles that are in error (no city sticker, illegally parked, or plate stickers or parking during city cleaning.
I wish my city would do this. There is so much reckless driving and auto theft here it’s insane. You can’t go a day driving without seeing at least one car without any plates. If the police could/would enforce the lower level stuff maybe criminals wouldn’t think they could get away with everything. Granted part of the problem is that the very democratic city always asks the state for more police budget and the republican run state congress always denies the request so that they can run their campaigns on pointing to the “lawless” democratic city.
Good luck getting the police to efficiently enforce this.
Boston already has a very robust parking enforcement division that aggressively tickets things like expired meters, parking in resident-only areas without a current resident sticker, etc. They also regularly ticket & tow cars when street sweeping is scheduled. It would be trivial for them to add this to their enforcement activities.
Speed cameras just got passed by the MA Senate.
That isn’t going to help bike lanes.
My city has Department of Finance* that issues straight up tickets for vehicles that are in error (no city sticker, illegally parked, or plate stickers or parking during city cleaning.
I wish my city would do this. There is so much reckless driving and auto theft here it’s insane. You can’t go a day driving without seeing at least one car without any plates. If the police could/would enforce the lower level stuff maybe criminals wouldn’t think they could get away with everything. Granted part of the problem is that the very democratic city always asks the state for more police budget and the republican run state congress always denies the request so that they can run their campaigns on pointing to the “lawless” democratic city.