New Bedford’s double-sided parking ban and alternative parking locations

To increase public safety during storm events, as of January 2016, the areas designated for a double-sided parking ban have been expanded to include sections of five new streets (listed below), in addition to the Downtown and Acushnet Avenue Business Districts where a double-sided ban has been in place in years past.

The new street sections were selected because they are major routes for ambulances, school buses, and SRTA buses, and have a history of large vehicles being unable to successfully navigate due to the narrowness of the street.

During a snow emergency parking ban, no parking is therefore permitted on either side of the street in the following areas:

• Downtown Business District: Downtown New Bedford between Walnut Street northerly to the Octopus and County Street easterly to JFK Boulevard
• Acushnet Avenue Business District: Acushnet Avenue, Coggeshall Street to Tarkiln Hill Road
• Ashley Boulevard (from Nash Road to Coggeshall Street)
• County Street (from Union Street to Sawyer Street)
• Kempton Street (from Rockdale Avenue to Pleasant Street)
• Mill Street (from Rockdale Avenue to Pleasant Street)
• Cottage Street (Union Street to Durfee Street)

Map of Double Sided Parking Ban: http://www.newbedfordguide.com/new-bedford-parking-ban-streets-map

Violations of the snow emergency parking ban will be subject to ticketing at $50 per ticket and towing at full cost to the owner of the vehicle towed. The vehicle owner is also responsible for the full cost of storage for any towed vehicle.

The City of New Bedford has designated the following areas as preferred parking areas for those residents in need of off-street parking while the emergency snow parking ban is in effect:

* Victory Park – Brock Avenue
* Hazelwood Park – Brock Avenue
* Cove Street Parking Lot – Cove Street and Morton Court
* Orchard Street at Camara Soccer Field
* Buttonwood Park Parking Area – Hawthorn Street Side and Lake Street Side
* Former St. Mary’s Home – Entrance on Mill Street
* Coggeshall Street Parking Lot – Coggeshall Street and Acushnet Avenue
* Sawyer Street Parking Lot – Between Sawyer Street and Beetle Street
* Brooklawn Park Parking Area – Brooklawn Street (South Side)
* Riverside Park Lot – Coffin Avenue
* Coffin Avenue Lot- Across from Taber Mills Apartments
* Former AVX site on Belleville Avenue at Hadley Street
* Former Philips Avenue School – 249 Phillips Avenue
* Elm Street Garage
* Zeiterion Garage – 688 Purchase Street
* New Bedford High School – 230 Hathaway Boulevard
* Keith Middle School – 225 Hathaway Boulevard
* Normandin Middle School – 81 Felton Street
* Roosevelt Middle School – 119 Fredrick Street
* Charles S Ashley Elementary School – 122 Rochambeau Street
* Elizabeth Carter Brooks Elementary School – 212 Nemasket Street
* Elwyn G Campbell Elementary School – 145 Essex Street
* Sgt Wm H Carney Academy Elementary School – 247 Elm Street
* Lot at intersection of Elm and Cottage (Southeast Corner)
* James B Congdon Elementary School – 50 Hemlock Street
* John B DeValles Elementary School – 120 Katherine Street
* Alfred J Gomes Elementary School – 286 South Second Street
* Ellen R Hathaway Elementary School – 256 Court Street
* Hayden/McFadden Elementary School – 361 Cedar Grove Street
* Horatio A Kempton Elementary School – 135 Shawmut Avenue
* Abraham Lincoln Elementary School – 445 Ashley Boulevard
* Carlos Pacheco Elementary School – 261 Mt. Pleasant Street
* John Avery Parker Elementary School – 705 County Street
* Casmir Pulaski Elementary School – 1097 Braley Road
* Thomas R Rodman Elementary School – 497 Mill Street
* William H Taylor Elementary School – 620 Brock Avenue
* SEA LAB/John Hannigan Elementary School – 91 Portland Street
* Jireh Swift Elementary School – 2203 Acushnet Avenue
* Betsey B Winslow Elementary School – 561 Allen Street