Lack of police judgment. Parking tickets.

The use of the Middle school fields this past Saturday, 9/21, for Touch a Truck necessitated soccer games for grades 1,2 and kindergarten to be moved to Claypit Hill school and share those fields with an already loaded schedule of 3rd, 4th , and 5th graders who normally play at there. Needless to say parking was packed and very much over flowing onto surrounding neighborhood streets and along posted roads leading into the school grounds. All “illegally” parked cars were straddling the curb and the roadways were open for travel.

Knowing this one time move of events to Claypit Hill I would have expected the police would have exhibited leniency on the ticketing of cars in the area. But I was wrong. Dozens of $30 tickets were given to cars that morning while children, including my daughter, were finishing up games with classmates and a new groups were heading on to fields.

My complaint is that a town purporting to be a community and especially the size of Wayland couldn’t give its residents a break for one day and refrain from passing out $30 fines.  The cars remained parked where they were so nothing was accomplished but to fill the parking coffers to the top and leave a bad taste in many residents’ mouths.