189 Towed Overnight

Dear City of New Haven,, enforce your laws. Tow and ticket. Do your jobs!

Very cold weather? The temp is going to 37 degrees today, forecast to 36 degrees tomorrow, 39 degrees on Thursday, 41 degrees on Friday.

Not sure why the City felt the need to tow so many cars. Maybe it will help encourage compliance when we have a major storm, but not at all necessary this go-around.

The storm just ended, and Im seeing only 4-5 on the ground, and clear pavement.

The Rodent "said" it would be an early spring Phil didn't say it would arrive next week.

Tho I don't normally support placing financial burdens on people, I would think that the city would give equal service to all neighborhoods & not just a select few when it comes to towing vehicles because of snow or vehicles because of street sweeping. I understand the attention & consideration given to the downtown streets - don't agree with it but understand it. But for neighborhoods which have narrower streets with parking on both sides, having one side absent of vehicles will allow for the streets to be cleared and cleaned properly. And if folks don't adhere to the parking bans, then OUR streets don't get the service that they should ... and those streets are usually in the more densely populated neighborhoods with little off-street parking. City officials state While we dont want to ticket or tow a vehicle, we also have to ensure roads are safe and accessible, especially for emergency vehicles and on the citys snow emergency routes." I encourage officials to ensure roads are safe & accessible for ALL and give ALL streets the same consideration. If the rules are not enforced equally across the board, then you can expect that people will not adhere to the rules equally across the board! One ticket or one tow can move someone into compliance.

CityYankee2,

The other day I was happy to see that those white Ford parking enforcement cars are back on the road at least in Morris Cove. It's about time! They haven't been around in years! I hope they check license plates also to see which cars are not registered and/or uninsured so that those of us who do follow the law will not have to pay higher rates especially for auto insurance. I hope they also keep an eye on a growing trend in Morris Cove where people are parking on their front lawns. We never had that before in our area! New people coming in from other areas or other states I guess think anything goes.

We cant complain because we have been extremely lucky for snow so far this winter.
The poor groundhogs have no idea when winter weather will end, because they are not weather forecasters. We annoy them every February when we should just eliminate the use of live animals for Groundhog Day.
The city has allowed parking in designated areas in school parking lots during snow removal times, but they should promote those areas for each neighborhood on the snow removal street signs.
Yale has allowed parking off street in their lots during some snow removal times, they should promote that a little more heavily also in the nearby neighborhoods.
If we all coordinate together to keep the odd sides of the street and the downtown streets clear of vehicles before a snow parking ban, then our little city will get cleared of snow faster and more completely.
Dont forget to shovel out fire hydrants and shovel and de-ice sidewalks and a path for postal workers and delivery drivers.
Be kind, and help elderly or disabled folks with shoveling and de-icing their walks, front steps and porch, and driveways.
We are all in this together.

Daffodils are pushing up thru the snow.
This is early Spring.