the parking signs are back
As I alluded to in an earlier post, one of the few benefits we received from the chaos brought on by the Franklin St. destructo-orgy was the fact that, once the road was finished, there were no parking signs. Anywhere.
For the first week or two that we were allowed back on Franklin St., I still insisted on moving the car from side to side, because I was certain that - consistent with earlier behaviors - they would put up the signs one day and then start towing and ticketing. For example, I wouldn't have put it past the DOT to put up the signs at 8am on a Tuesday morning, and then promptly start ticketing all the cars parked on the No Parking Tuesday 8-930 side (they did similar before). But after a while I realized they weren't in a hurry to put the signs back up, and no one was getting ticketed. And the luxury of not having to move the car felt like a million bucks.
I don't know when they put the signs up, all I know is that we came back from the baseball game on Friday night and the signs were in place. There was no notice from the DOT saying, "Hey! We put the signs back up, so all of you who have been parking your car and leaving it, better get with the program again." Just new signs.
I do recall having read somewhere that once the signs are taken down, there is a two-week grace period after they are restored to give residents time to get used to the regulations again. But I'm not taking any chances.
It was nice, six months of no alternate side. But we took it as reparations for the almost two years of hell brought on by the street reconstruction. Honestly, compared to living on the Lower East Side, parking here is a cakewalk.
Just don't tell anybody.