Parking Tickets

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...

No one likes getting parking tickets, but a new program in Burlington may take some of the sting out of them.

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...

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…