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Vt. City Tries Taking Sting Out of Paying Overdue Parking Tickets With Charity Push
A new program in Vermont’s largest city aims to take some of the sting out of settling up unpaid parking tickets by directing half the money to charity. “We’re trying to think in these more creative ways,” said Jeff Padgett, who heads the parking and traffic division of the Burlington Department of Public Works. The division’s pilot program, Fines...
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Vermont City Trying Creative Solution for Old Parking Tickets
No one likes getting parking tickets, but a new program in Burlington may take some of the sting out of them.
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Boston Street Sweeping Rules Will Again Be Enforced Starting August 10
For months, cars parked in Boston spots set for street sweeping haven’t been getting parking tickets. But that will change Aug. 10, when the city will resume enforcing street sweeping laws, the city said in a news release Wednesday. That means vehicles parked where street sweepers are due will get tickets, but, the city said, they won’t be towed...
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Boston City Council To Consider Income-Adjusted Parking Tickets
Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia wants all Bostonians to be able to “smaht-pahk.” The recently elected councilor at large will present a hearing order on Wednesday to examine the possibility of income-adjusted parking tickets in Boston. In a recent Twitter video, Mejia used a viral Boston-themed Super Bowl commercial as a launching point for her stance on parking tickets. “Not…