SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) -- Some Springfield residents got fifty-dollar parking tickets during the snowstorm, but the city never towed their cars, leaving them buried by plows.

Now they want answers, as many are saying they never heard about the parking ban.

Dalton Hagerty of Springfield recounts the situation, saying, “So they basically just plowed around them, and plowed everybody in. And, yeah, that’s... it was just... it was hell.”

Hagerty and his neighbors’ cars were buried by a city plow. “The storm obviously was bad. There’s only so much that you can do. But there were tickets given to everybody on the street. You know, they should have done a better job announcing that there was an even side parking ban and that when you had to move, there should have been letters or something, you know,” he tells us.

Hagerty says the city didn’t properly announce the ban. However, city officials warned they would ticket and tow aggressively. “Ticketing and towing. We will be aggressively out there ticketing and towing in the city,” Springfield DPW Director Chris Cignoli stated in a press conference om Friday.

The problem stems from the city ticketing cars but not towing them. Hagerty says only one abandoned car was removed from his street. Plows pushed snow around the rest, burying them.

“I mean, I was just... I was looking... I was thinking that the city could have did a better job plowing,” Hagerty continues.

Residents had to dig out their car’s multiple times, and some streets, like Summit Street, still haven’t been plowed or salted.

He goes on to say, “I feel bad for everybody that lives on that street or parks on that street because there really is going to be no moving. I mean, that street hasn’t been plowed, I don’t think, since the storm even started.”

Hagerty says the city did the bare minimum. He calls the tickets unfair since the city didn’t follow through on towing.

Western Mass News reached out to Springfield DPW Director Chris Cignoli for comment but have not yet heard back. Residents who received tickets can appeal at City Hall.

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