A few days ago we wrote about how a few Old Worcester Road neighbors near the Temple Street Stop & Shop banded together and asked the traffic commission to ban overnight commercial vehicle parking. A half dozen commercial vehicles parked on the street nightly, in front of their homes, irked them, and they wanted change. It seems that while the commission discusses a solution for just that street, there is a push for regulations throughout the city.
While neighbors in 01701 don’t see the problem with commercial parking, the further south in the city you go, the more the outcry for action exists. The problem, per the director of the DPW, there are no enforceable rules prohibiting the parking of commercial vehicles in the city. However as they look to correct the issue on that one road, their changes to policy will reach much further.
Per the DPW director, there are no rules governing commercial vehicles, on the inspectional services page of the City of Framingham’s website, a chart titled “Code Violation Reference Guide” indicates that there may be rules being overlooked or long ignored.
In Coburnville, part of the south side to the west of downtown along route 135 and south, residents say the issue is pervasive. They claim their neighborhoods look more like Brighton, but instead of Priuses lining the street, it is white cargo vans and ladders stacked sky high.
On the other side of downtown, south and east, a Tripp Street resident reached out to us.
On Tuesday, he wrote, “My neighbors and I have had to deal with this tractor trailer parking on both Tripp Street and Herbert Street for a long time now. He leaves his tractor and trailer for days and sometimes weeks at a time. His truck has been out there since Friday afternoon and is still there now. The difference this time is that it has been running unoccupied since Friday. It’s loud, especially when we’re trying to sleep.”
Another Tripp Street resident confirmed that this truck is a problem, that they believe the owner lives in Hudson, and that when he parks the truck there, someone comes and picks him up, and they drive away.
On Sunday, with the truck already running for days, the police were called. There was concern that the owner was dead in the cab this time. Police and fire did come, and nobody was inside. Fire shut down the truck. Hours later, the truck was again running.
With Framingham’s lack of enforcement of just about everything, its free parking, backwards, wrong side, facing the wrong way… anything goes and always at the expense of the residents who foot the bills.
The Tripp Street resident informs us today that the truck has left the neighborhood… but he expects it to return sometime in the near future… it always does.
If you know the operator of the truck pictured here, let him know the jig is up, and he can park the damn thing in front of his own house from here on out.
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Yes, this is a problem. And sooner or later there is going to be a problem on one of the smaller streets with emergency vehicles not being able to get through. I don’t know what the answer is, but a lot of towns do have rules limiting commercial vehicles parking on streets overnight. Running a truck unsupervised, which I have had neighbors do in the past, is just wrong.