Boston - District city Councilor Bill Linehan's proposal to eliminate towing by private companies on street cleaning days is no "breath of fresh air," as you put it in your April 9 editorial "For a cleaner sweep of Boston." It's pandering to the residents (and nonresidents, as one study found) who are too lazy or disorganized to move their cars. This city must be the dirtiest in North America, and the last three seasons of towing cars that block the street sweeper have been the most effective effort yet in addressing that problem. Charging more for tickets will not change behavior. Towing will.
You're also wrong to say that towing is arbitrary. So what if the tow trucks can't get to every car in every neighborhood. Eventually all the scofflaws will get their just deserts. My car was towed last summer, and I know how effective that is for making me ensure it doesn't happen again.
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