Really, you just can't be bothered to think about whether your parking spot is a wise location to leave your car for several weeks? And further, that you can't even choose not to park on a snow emergency route?

Your car is probably the first or second most expensive thing you own. Take ten seconds to read the signs governing the legalities of where you store it. If you screw they up (it happens to all of us) then own the screwup.

Not every city experiences the same logistical problems, and for a snowy city, I think it's quite reasonable to penalize people for parking in snow emergency routes. If Washington DC were such a place that didn't historically snow, I would sympathize with the fined.

The needs of some city residents to travel for weeks or months without thinking about where they are parked don't outweigh the needs of a snowy city to have emergency snow travel routes.

If you wanted to park some place and hope that it doesn't snow, that's both your loss and gain.

If I was leaving town for several weeks (or even just the weekend) my very first thought would be "is this a good location to leave my car for the duration I'd be gone?" and it certainly wouldn't be an afterthought!

Yes actually you do get to pick which street you park on. Unless you have one of the new fangled diverless cars. If you are traveling in winter and could be home for weeks on end, don't leave for cat in a place where it might get towed.

> -- and where you're parked is an afterthought

Not in places like NYC w/ street sweeping schedules.