Do you live and work around a large city with metro train service? Do you have a parking problem in your area?

Question

I live in a suburban town in the Metro Boston area. We have several commuter rail lines, from Amtrack railroads to subway trains. The cost of parking in the downtown Boston area has gone through the roof. Some parking lots charge about $50 a day to park your car during the week. On the train stations, the parking is about $5 per day but even with that, parking is limited. We have not only the work force to contend with, but also students commuting into colleges and universities, and the elderly that want to go to the many hospitals that Boston offers. Then there are the tourists who often stay at hotels outside of Boston and are advised to not drive into Boston but to take the train in town and park your car wherever.
Wherever is the problem. It could be that people do not want to pay the $5 parking fee at the train station parking lot. Or perhaps if they are coming into Boston anytime after 7am, they probably cannot find a place to park as the lots tend to fill by that time. So then you see that the neighborhoods are filled with cars parking in one or two hour limit slots but stay there the entire day. The local businesses are suffering because customers to the local barber shop or coffee shop cannot find a place to park their cars because some commuter as taken that slot.
I have tried to call law enforcement about this. I was told that because I am not the property owner of the place where the driver is parked illegally that I cannot file a report. For some reason, law enforcement is looking the other way when it comes to enforcing traffic laws regarding this. People are parked in handicapped slots, fire lanes, and the SUVs that many of these people own often take up two parking slots. The real winners park sideways and hog up two or three parking slots.
As a result, the parking spaces are all filled but very few shoppers are in the stores.
Why do you think local law enforcement is doing next to nothing about this parking problem? Why do they make it difficult for ordinary citizens to alert them about this problem?

Answer 1

I live in Calgary, Alberta, and our traffic is horrendous - it's a brawl every morning. The people who rent monthly stalls have an advantage, but it can be pretty expensive, especially in the downtown. When you have a million residents in your city, most of whom have cars, and couple that with the fact that most people live out in the 'burbs, you got something that bound to blow up in your face.



We have a Light Rail Transit system here but it only covers so much ground here; we have a bad "urban sprawl," problem here, and the city council doesn't seem to want to do anything about, on the contrary, they've been expanding freeways and interchanges to handle more traffic - which makes the problem worse.



The cops can only write tickets and tow the illegally-parked cars. It's the politicians and city managers that need to get wise. They're the ones that make the laws; you need to talk to them, and make it an issue.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Houston, Texas the fourth largest city in the U.S.

We have metro train service, however, I drive my car everywhere.

I have no parking problen in my area.