So, for the next two nights, you’ll have to alternate side park downtown . . . .
The City of Madison will NOT declare a snow emergency on Saturday evening December 11th. Because the snow is not predicted to end until Sunday morning, no snow emergency will be called Saturday.
If the snow storm acts as predicted is it likely that a snow emergency will be declared on Sunday. That snow emergency will last until 7 a.m. Tuesday December 14th should it be declared.
Alternate side parking restrictions are in effect Saturday evening for most of the City of Madison. If you are parking a vehicle on the street Saturday evening you should park on the EVEN house numbered side of the street.
Alternate side parking restrictions do not apply in the downtown/isthmus snow emergency zone this evening. The snow emergency zone extends form Park and Proudfit Streets on the south and west to Thorton Avenue and the Yahara River on the North.
Bad decision by city government officials…
VERY bad decision by city government officials…
Wait–I don’t get this: “Because the snow is not predicted to end until Sunday morning, no snow emergency will be called Saturday.”
They don’t declare a snow emergency until the storm is over? It’s not an emergency until it’s no longer an emergency?
Richard-
Snow emergencies downtown are not like weather service alerts. They are directly related to street plowing, not current weather conditions. I assume they didn’t declare a snow emergency last night because they weren’t plowing residential streets during the actual storm and, therefore, did not need parked cars out of the way.
Having lived downtown in the days before snow emergencies, when alternate side parking was in effect all winter long – snow or no snow, I think it’s great that the city only restricts parking when plowing operations are actually occurring.
So, in the sense of alternate side parking, it really isn’t an emergency until it’s no longer a weather emergency.