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Friday, January 5th, 2024 1:26pm

With the potential of some serious snow totals hitting the Capital Region this weekend, a couple of cities have already announced their parking restrictions.

Schenectady is one of those cities. Mayor Gary McCarthy wants to make sure that people adhere to those restrictions and utilize the free parking at the Schenectady Municipal Parking Garage on Broadway from 5 p.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. on Tuesday. He also is reminding people to use off street parking as well. 

Parking restrictions in Schenectady state that there is no parking on priority roads when there is 3 inches of snow or more. Priority roads include - 

• Van Vranken Avenue
• Nott Street (Erie Boulevard to Wendell Avenue)
• Union Street
• Eastern Avenue
• Brandywine Avenue (State Street to Rugby Road)
• McClellan Street (State Street to Rugby Road)
• State Street
• Erie Boulevard (State Street to I-890)
• Albany Street (Veeder Avenue to Elm Street)
• Altamont Avenue
• Schuyler Street (Michigan Avenue to Altamont Avenue)
• Michigan Avenue
• Crane Street
• Chrisler Avenue
• Broadway (State Street to the city line)
• Campbell Avenue (Broadway to Fairview Avenue)

Cars that are parked on those roads may be ticketed or towed. Restrictions will be lifted once the storm has stopped and the entire street has been cleared of snow.

Rotterdam has also put their parking restrictions in place for this upcoming storm as well. The snow emergency begins at 6pm on Saturday and will end at 9pm on Monday.

The Rotterdam Highway Department is reminding people that there should be no parking on Town roads and there should be nothing on the side of the road as well. That would be garbage cans or portable basketball hoops. If you have either, get them out of the way. Also, make sure that your sidewalk is clear as well.  Any car parked on a Town road will be ticketed and towed. 

Feature photo: Reuters