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One small plus to the alternate side scheme: neighbors who have to get up to move cars before 8AM every morning are more likely to see and speak to each other often. This builds community in a quiet, but real way. Think how many of your neighbors you only see when it's the night to put out the trash.<div><br><div><div>On May 29, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Thomas A. Schmeling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Karen,<div><br></div><div>Your point about people failing to move their cars on narrow streets is well-taken. My experience with this says that if you enforce the law, people will move their cars to avoid tickets.</div><div><br></div><div>I understand that you are opposed to on-street overnight parking generally. I won't disagree with you and, in fact, I tend to agree with you. But the point of my post was only say that <i><u>if we are going to have overnight parking</u>, </i>this is a better alternative than the current plan.</div><div><i><br></i><div>best,</div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div> <br><div><div>On May 29, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Karen Klingon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I see a problem with the alternate-side idea. If someone fails to move their car for whatever reason but everyone else does, a narrow street will be blocked until a city tow-truck shows up. How swiftly will the police respond to this situation?<br><br>I'd also like to point out that car break-ins and theft are likely to increase when cars are parked on the street overnight. That means car alarms at 3 AM. <br><br>Karen<br>Chace Drive<br>_______________________________________________<br>Summit mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Summit@sna.providence.ri.us">Summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a><br><a href="http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us">http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us</a><br>SNA Website: http://sna.providence.ri.us/<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Summit mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Summit@sna.providence.ri.us">Summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us">http://mail.sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.us</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SNA Website: <a href="http://sna.providence.ri.us">http://sna.providence.ri.us</a>/</div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>