Street maintenance notice given by barely noticeable signs results in towing of dozens of cars on Benjamin Street. It’s a primarily student neighborhood.
Benjamin near Hill & Packard
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I saw towing on McKinley near White yesterday, too.
A couple of weeks ago when they posted Granger for street cleaning, I thought that the signs were pretty far apart. The ones on White yesterday were closer together and more noticeable. There were no cars parked on that side of White, so the residents (mostly students) apparently had noticed the signs and moved their cars.
They do this every summer, so it is most likely to catch new residents of a neighborhood. Given that we want the gutters cleaned of tree and leaf debris, so that the storm drains don’t plug up in a storm and back up into basements, what can the city do differently to help residents notice the posting and move their cars so they won’t have to tow them?
From your comment it sounds like we agree that the spacing of those signs is really important. It also strikes me as strange that they’re so similar to regular “no parking” signs and not, for example, bigger and bright orange.