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The last time I parked my car in Boonton, NJ during the snow (3 inch snow) I got ticketed although I parked neatly and although they hardly plowed the streets in the area, and they didn't blow in areas cars usually park. so where do people leave their cars during the snow in new jersey?? ...Sometimes I spend a day or 2 in East Orange...sometimes in Livingston...and sometimes in Boonton
The last time I parked my car in Boonton, NJ during the snow (3 inch snow) I got ticketed although I parked neatly and although they hardly plowed the streets in the area, and they didn't blow in areas cars usually park. so where do people leave their cars during the snow in new jersey?? ...Sometimes I spend a day or 2 in East Orange...sometimes in Livingston...and sometimes in Boonton
In many NNJ towns there is no overnight street parking permitted during the winter. You must park off street. Check with the specific town on their regulations. I found this on the Boonton website:
[SIZE=3]Parking is prohibited between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am, prevailing time, when the streets are covered with at least three inches of snow. Snow is measured by the Shift Commander of the Boonton Police Department on the walkway in front of the flagpole at Town Hall on the Washington Street side. Parking is prohibited for eight hours after the precipitation ends.[/SIZE]
I'd be very careful as in many towns not only do they ticket for overnight street parking, they will tow your car. Especially if there is a heavy snowfall.
HTH
KoalaNJ
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Snow is measured by the Shift Commander of the Boonton Police Department on the walkway lol I find that funny!!! sooo, where should people without a personal parking space and out of town guests hide their cars?
Not really sure how anyone could answer this question as it's all dependent on where you are in the town and what off-street parking options are available. It's not like there's some secret place where people can park their cars.
Snow is measured by the Shift Commander of the Boonton Police Department on the walkway lol I find that funny!!! sooo, where should people without a personal parking space and out of town guests hide their cars?
Guess if you're not going to be away from your car for hours you can get away with a shopping center parking lot if there is one near where you are.
This may or may not apply to other areas, but when heavy snow is forecast, the City of Bayonne opens up the gates to its school yards, and allows people to park there. That helps to make the adjacent streets much easier to plow.
Whether other cities use this concept or not, I can't say, but it is definitely one of the few good ideas ever to originate in Bayonne!
This may or may not apply to other areas, but when heavy snow is forecast, the City of Bayonne opens up the gates to its school yards, and allows people to park there. That helps to make the adjacent streets much easier to plow.
Whether other cities use this concept or not, I can't say, but it is definitely one of the few good ideas ever to originate in Bayonne!
I do not remember that. Huge storms in places like Bayonne, JC, Hoboken are an absolute nightmare. There's nowhere to put the snow, people shovel out their cars, leave, and then get pissed when people "take" them (even though it's not "your" spot). People puts cones in their spots (my dad would move the cones and park, lol). I'd rather live here with 3 feet of snow than Bayonne with 8 inches.
I do not remember that. Huge storms in places like Bayonne, JC, Hoboken are an absolute nightmare. There's nowhere to put the snow, people shovel out their cars, leave, and then get pissed when people "take" them (even though it's not "your" spot). People puts cones in their spots (my dad would move the cones and park, lol). I'd rather live here with 3 feet of snow than Bayonne with 8 inches.
Ditto to not missing the "experience" of dealing with snow in those congested environs. When I was younger, nobody had traffic cones, so garbage cans were used to stake out personal parking spaces. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't.
IIRC, the city instituted the idea of opening school yards for parking sometime in the late '80s-early '90s, so if you departed Bayonne prior to that era, it wouldn't be surprising that you don't recall it. I would not have been aware of it if I hadn't still been visiting relatives in Bayonne up through ~2002.
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