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Overnight parking ban lifted

by Gail Spector | Mar 14, 2020 | parking | 2 comments

Message from Mayor Fuller: With many family members home because of the COVID-19 situation, Newton Police Chief David McDonald is lifting the Overnight Parking Ban effective immediately. Warmly, Ruthanne

Maybe the parking lot was full?

by Adam Peller | Jan 22, 2020 | MBTA, Newton, parking | 9 comments

@NUFalexander shares this scene from the Eliot T stop on Twitter:

Has Anyone Noticed …

by Marti Bowen | Sep 5, 2019 | Newton, Newton Highlands, Newtonville, parking, Schools, Waban, Zervas | 17 comments

Has anyone noticed the difference between – Building a new school in Waban/Newton Highlands – lets just call it Zervis – the city paid at least fair market value to take 3 homes so a parking lot could be built for teachers and staff – to meet...

Laredo on Ciccone’s Rosa Parks comment

by Sean Roche | Jun 3, 2019 | City Council, Marc Laredo, Newton, parking | 17 comments

What did City Council President Marc Laredo do in response to Councilor Jay Ciccone’s remarks comparing higher parking meter rates to Jim Crow laws? Publicly, nothing.

Councilors Downs, Auchincloss and Kelley offer thoughts on library parking lot

by Adam Peller | Jun 2, 2019 | Newton, parking | 24 comments

The following message was shared with Village 14 by City Councilors Andreae Downs (ward 5 at-large), Jake Auchincloss (ward 2 at-large), and Andrea Kelley (ward 3 at-large) Mid-day on Friday, Julia Malakie sent every member of City Council a survey on the library...

Councilor Ciccone stuck to his Rosa Parks comparison

by Sean Roche | Jun 1, 2019 | City Council, Newton, parking | 22 comments

As reported in yesterday’s post, at a meeting of the Newton City Council Public Safety and Transportation committee (PS&T), committee chair Councilor Jay Ciccone compared a proposal to implement variable priced parking to Jim Crow laws. After he made his...

Councilor Ciccone compares parking plan to Jim Crow laws

by Sean Roche | May 31, 2019 | City Council, Newton, parking, Public safety | 9 comments

Last month at a meeting of the Newton City Council Public Safety & Transportation (PS&T) committee, during a discussion of variable parking pricing, committee chair Jay Ciccone drew a racially insensitive comparison between the inconvenience of having to park...

Prime parking pricing pondered for Newton Center

by village14 | May 5, 2019 | Newton Centre, parking | 14 comments

City councilors are considering a proposal that potentially could lead to higher prices at some Newton Centre parking meters, John Hilliard from the Globe reports. In a proposal to the City Council’s Public Safety and Transportation Committee in April, planning...

Auchincloss: ‘To argue for less traffic but more parking is not logically coherent’

by Greg Reibman | Apr 10, 2019 | Newton, Northland, parking | 48 comments

Newton City Councilor Jake Auchincloss sent this to his colleagues following Tuesday’s night Land Use Committee meeting about Northland’s traffic mitigation plans. Hi colleagues, Last night was a long night and no one, including me, felt like hearing Jake...

Laredo on traffic and parking

by village14 | Mar 11, 2019 | bicycles, Marc Laredo, parking, streets and sidewalks, traffic | 10 comments

City Council President Marc Laredo shared some thoughts about traffic and parking in an email to campaign supporters (and also let them know that he will be seeking reelection). Here’s the portion of his email about traffic and parking.

Dear Friends:

I hope that you and your families are doing well and looking forward to spring!
In this update, I will focus on two interrelated issues that are a source of continued frustration for Newton residents – traffic and parking.

As I travel through the city, whether walking, running, biking or driving, it is readily apparent that we have a lot of automobile traffic. At times, it is difficult to walk or bike safely, and parking can be limited. So what should we do?

We need to promote safe walking and bicycling and the use of mass transit. Yet, at the same time, we should acknowledge that

New rules for overtime parking would end ‘feeding’ the meter

by village14 | Jan 18, 2019 | parking | 12 comments

Remember the big brouhaha last May over proposed parking rules that would not allow you to park at the same meter, the same block or even the same city parking lot — twice in the same day?

Well the City Council’s Public Safety and Transportation committee will discuss a new version of proposed changes to the city’s overtime parking rules on Weds. Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. and they’re certainly less restrictive but no doubt will still upset some folks.

The new ordinance would prevent you from feeding (with coins or the app) a meter once your original time has expired and instead you would have to

Northland to present plan to finance four shuttle bus routes

by village14 | Jan 14, 2019 | bicycles, Needham Street, Northland, parking, streets and sidewalks | 23 comments

The City Council’s Land Use Committee will meet on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. at Newton City Hall to hear about Northland’s much-anticipated transportation plan for its project at Needham and Oak Streets.

Northland is proposing a variety of traffic mitigation remedies, including limiting residential parking to one space per unit and funding new and improved bike and pedestian paths.

But the most significant part of the plan is a proposal to operate and fund a shuttle system that would be open to public use at

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