Hmmm, you actually are not abiding by the spirit of the resident permits. The purpose of the resident permits is not to give everyone in West Roxbury a free spot at the train station. The permits are really meant so that people who LIVE NEAR the train stations can park on the street AND so that people who drive to the station won't try to skirt the $4 fee by parking on local residential streets. If the weather is bad and you want to park, pay the $4.

With a West Roxbury Resident Permit you can park anywhere there is a resident only sign. I would just say that you have to be couteous about where you park. Spending the day, ormore likely, multiple "all days" in font of someone's house may be legal but is hardly friendly. The idea of a resident parking lot should be raised with John Connolly or Matt O'Malley; it is a very good idea.

The idea of a resident parking lot may help. I live down the street from Highland station and love living in the city. I have to admit there is an odd time when it is quite frustrating. Example: I was waiting for a plumber to come, an older gentlemen comes and parks in front of my home. I approached, explained I was waiting for a plumber & would he mind parking just across the street. He was rude, indignant and I just stood there dumbfounded. Later (10hrs) a friend stopped by and at the same time that same fellow was coming from the train. He walked around his car checking his tires then he stared at me??!! Did he think I was going to flatten his tires?? Bizarre. I love living in the city and enjoying all that it has to offer. Unfortunately you have to deal with people like that no matter where you live. City or country.

Agreed, this woman is not abiding by the spirit of Residency Parking that was enacted for the residents of each particular neighborhood. Please note, this woman parks her car year-round on streets that abut the train, and not just in inclement weather!!! As for her 9-5 parking hours, she more times than not, scurries to her car as late as 8 PM or 9 PM at night. That is an extremely long and outrageous and disrespectful time to take up a spot not in her neighborhood and in front of homes with large families and visiting family and friends.

Per the City of Boston (www.cityofboston.gov) - 'Boston's Resident Permit Parking Program is an initiative designed to give residents a better chance of finding an on-street parking space in their neighborhood'. Why can't residents park in their neighborhood which is clearly why the plan was created?

I have to admit I was surprised when I first found out that all you had to be was a West Roxbury resident to get a West Roxbury parking sticker. I wonder how many people who have West Roxbury stickers are people who don't live near a commuter station that has signs that say residential parking only but use the sticker so they can avoid having to pay for parking the car in the commuter lot

Ideally West Roxbury stickers should only go to cars whose owners reside on streets where the streets say residential parking only

Stephen Smith, from your lips to God's ears, and in this case aka Boston City Councilors! I encourage them to make a wrong right, sooner rather than later! The City of Boston most certainly could use the additional revenue from the parking lots, about $1500.00 per year per car.

The public street in front of your house is PUBLIC (everyone’s). You want somewhere to park your car that no one else can have, BUILD A DRIVEWAY or don’t rent or buy property without private parking spaces. That said, parking in WR should never be a problem. Way back, there was angled (pull forward) parking on LaGrange, from Centre to past Westmount. That’s why the road is 12’ wider through that stretch. Changing to angled parking would add about 40 more spaces so commuters don’t have to take all the area’s parking.

I have to say that the topic is inflamed indeed. Commuters routinely park next to our house (we live close to West Roxbury Station), and I don't mind at all. By all means, I encourage people using the commuter rail instead of taking their cars downtown. Recently a woman who parked in front of our porch for a while approached me and showed a pretty rude note someone left on her windshield, demanding her to stop parking on our street. She thought it was me. This was very embarrassing.
Streets are public, not private. If you don't like the rules of parking, you should argue with the city council, not the commuters.

I agree with the last two comments that streets are public but my comments were in regards to those streets around West Roxbury commuter stops that say residential parking only. I think people in their comments are confusing public streets near commuter stops that have no residental parking only signs and those that do have signage. If residents are complaining in those cases where there is no residential parking signage about cars parking in front of their house then they are wrong. My problem is with people using a residential parking only sticker when they don't reside on a street that says residential parking only

Your last line above Stephen is the ONLY point I wish to get across on this issue, and the accurate point to be emphasized!

But the rule is that if you have a residential sticker you may park on the "Resident only" streets even if you don't live there. They are public streets. I had a person threaten to slash my tires for parking on "his" street once. Professionals who work in W. Roxbury park on residential streets all the time, and it is legal for them to do so.

I do like the idea of a resident-only lot, though.