Everyday, people park their cars on Belmont Street in front of the Oakley Country Club and catch the #73 bus into Harvard Square. Often someone parks right up to the corner of Commonwealth Road and Belmont Street. If you are making the turn from Commonwealth Road onto Belmont Street, those cars parked at the corner block your view and you have to inch out until you are directly in the way of cars speeding down the hill from Cushing Square.
So I decided to ask the Belmont police (because Belmont Street is in Belmont) if they would enforce the ordinance that prohibits parking within a certain distance of the curb.
Sgt. Hamilton of the Belmont Police told me that for them to enforce it there needs to be a sign that says “No Parking from here to corner.” But the sidewalk is in Watertown and so Sgt. Hamilton told me I had to go to the Watertown Police to get a sign put up.
Officer Morley of The Watertown Police Traffic Division said the Watertown Department of Public Works is responsible for putting up parking signs and sent me to them.
The Watertown DPW said they need authorization from the Watertown Traffic Commission before they can put up a sign. So they sent me to the Traffic Commission which is headed by Sgt. Pugliese of The Watertown Police Traffic Division.
So I called the Watertown Police again and spoke to Officer Morley again who checked with Sgt. Pugliese who said that because Belmont Street is in Belmont, the Watertown Traffic Commission has no jurisdiction over it. He said the request to the Watertown DPW must come from Belmont. And he sent me back to Sgt. Hamilton of the Belmont Police.
Stay tuned.
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