Residents and workers in Boston’s Seaport are facing significant parking challenges, including difficulty finding spots and costly parking fees.
Parking is such a problem in the Seaport that the Boston Globe reported that parking complaints are the most common issue reported to Boston’s 311 system. That’s more than 60,000 complaints in the past year, tripling the requests for street cleaning.
The highest concentration of parking complaints occurs along a 200-meter stretch of Congress and Summer streets in the Seaport, where more than 1,000 complaints were filed in the past year. Other popular complaint areas include Thomas Park in South Boston and regions near Route 28 and Interstate 90 on the South End–Bay Village border…