Move Your Car Between 5-7am Monday or Face Towing in City Lots
Are you parked in an emergency lot? Residents must move their cars by 7 a.m. Monday, though the city's ban on most street parking remains in effect until 5 a.m. that same morning. Officials urge residents to try and clean out their cars Sunday.
Residents will have only two early morning hours to move their cars from the city's emergency lots before towing begins Monday morning.
The lots, opened to accomodate a temporary ban on street parking during the storm, must be cleared for its own plowing by 7 a.m. Monday morning.
However, the city's parking ban still remains in effect until 5 a.m. that morning.
An update from the City of Malden's Twitter account urged residents to start digging their cars out of city-approved emergency lots on Sunday, in an effort to hasten the process Monday morning.
Katharine Wilkins
2:28 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
That's all good and well,but I live on Salem St.. with no resident parking lot or driveway! There are at least three bus routes on this street and the plows left very little space for on street parking. Could the plows not get any closer to the sidewalks? There were absloutely no cars on the street during the emergency ban? Now what? KW
nancy johnston
9:28 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
I agree, it appears that on many streets in Malden the plows forgot to go to the sidewalks..so what was the use of a parking ban if not to plow to the sidewalk.
Raj
12:07 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
same thing with Broadway. We had a CONTRACTED plow company make about 3 passes from storm beginning until Sunday night at 11pm. It was the worst I have ever seen Broadway (20 years living here). Then Sunday night, after shovelling to clear driveway and front of house for 2 days, when everyone is trying to unwind and get ready for work or college the next day, they decide to widen the road creating an ice wall in front of driveways! Now I have to try to clear it to get my car out. I don't have the luxury of hiring someone to plow or shovel for me, and just because Malden schools are off doesn't mean everyone has another day to clean up. This snowstorm cleanup was an epic fail Mr. Mayor. When driving earlier past Linden school to Revere, Malden was a disgrace.. When we hit the Revere line, you'd swear they didn't even have any snow. I know it was a monster of a storm, but it seems strange it took til Sunday Night (DOUBLE TIME PAY) for the DPW to clean up the streets properly!
Frank Ryan
8:30 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
After driving through many nearby cities today, I realized every other city's or town's streets have been plowed better than Malden's streets. The Linden end of Eastern Ave was packed snow with ruts. This is Rte 60, not some side street. The Fellsway is three lanes wide and I think that's plowed by the state. Why is the state able to do such a great job? Is it a matter of money and better equipment? Saugus, Everett, and Melrose looked better than Malden.
nancy johnston
9:26 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
I agree, Medford Street is only one lane on both sides and if you go on Hancock St. the street is so narrow it will be a nightmare in the morning, It looks like the plow just went down the middle and forgot that the street is two cars wide, what is more embarrassing, once you hit Everett, Hancock St. is cleared, I feel bad for the people who live on that street when cars come back to park.
david mokal
3:35 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
@ Frank I think our DPW does great but the outside contractors are the ones who screw it up.
broadway Jay
10:17 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Does anyone know if there will be street sweeping tomorrow ?
Mike G.
10:24 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Yes, right after the Bruins game
M
9:49 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
absolutely horrible plowing job, Malden. There was a parking ban - no excuse the main streets aren't wider. Side streets are horrendous - as always. If the sides streets were only given 1 - 2 passes so they could do the main streets, why didn't they do the main streets thoroughly? Wider main streets would go a long way toward making walkers and people waiting for buses safer... This was a fail, Gary.
C
10:46 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
We live on a small street off Main St so definitely no plows came through. Anyone know what's required of the landlord during snow storms? Is it required that he comes to shovel or give us some salt to melt the ice or is it tenants responsibility? Us tenants shovel our own driveway already but he didn't provide us any ice melts.
coldwaterdiver
3:56 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
What does your lease say?
Bobby James
11:19 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
Drive down Highland Ave and hit Medford - streets are cleared curb to curb in Medford. Barely space for two way traffic in Malden. Same thing with Lebanon Street, once you hit Melrose its clean.
nancy johnston
11:54 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
couldn't agree with you any more, it took me 45 minutes to get from Cross Street, down Medford Street to get to the front of BJ's warehouse this morning...oh they came to "widen" the street yesterday, did one pass on the "even" side of the street....turned around and did nothing ont he odd side.....he actually put the plow blade up when going down, there is at least 2 feet of snow from sidewalk into the street, alread a back up this morning.....
broadway Jay
11:40 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
WICKED BOSTON ACCENT: "Dump the snow in the Boston Harbah" !!
david mokal
1:04 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
LOL Broadway but for real someone is in deep crap for dumping in REVERE HARBAH ! CBS Heli right over their heads. LOL
coldwaterdiver
3:57 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Snow is a hazardous waste and cannot be dumped into the harbor. I'm not even joking.
AnnieOMalden
12:55 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
I was told the Mayor tweeted he was on a "ride about" with the DPW and got stuck somewhere and had to get pulled out! lol
DannyBoy
1:02 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
LMAO, Annie... That's a good one!
broadway Jay
1:29 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
DAVID MOKAL: Remember when they used to take the enormous mounds of snow from the Financial District, Fanuel Hall and Back Bay and truck it behind Anthony's Pier 4 on Northern Ave, back the trucks along the edge and dump the snow into the harbor ?
It was actually cheered and encouraged.. My have times changed !!
david mokal
3:39 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Your right Broadway but enviremental says No Way. They stopped the Airport as well. They just used to push it in Boston Harbah but now they have to truck it away. I remember those days too.
Mike G.
3:05 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
I drove from Boston (which was a complete disaster area) thru Cambridge, Somerville and Medford to get home, and did not notice one bit of difference. Everywhere is pretty much an unmitigated disaster area, mounds of snow everywhere, sidewalks not shoveled, curbs not shoveled out. Malden is no exception to that, but let's stop making it out to be like Malden is the only place that's in rough shape.
david mokal
3:49 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Mike when a contractor dumps a 15 foot high pile on the sidewalk how are you supposed to shovell that. I aint doin it. I got two thirds done and got chest pains thats it for me. Took my Nitro and an asprin under my tounge and the pain went away. thats it for me.
Mike G.
6:54 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Nice story.
david mokal
7:09 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Wasn't It?" lol
Mike G.
8:27 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
It was heartwarming, to say the least.
Scott Scott
8:26 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
It's true other towns are in a similar state as Malden. However, on Friday the plows were going by my side street house every 15 minutes. I haven't seen a plow since Saturday. Did everyone go home? Three days later and the schools are still not plowed? I know, whenever people complain about this type of thing everyone says "DPW is doing its best". That may be true. I would like the mayor to post daily the spots that HAVE been cleared. If they are working so hard, there must be a checklist by importance, right? Post it. And next time don't impose a parking ban if they are not plowing up to the sidewalks.