Worcester, MA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Section 37 of Chapter 13 (Traffic & Parking of Motor Vehicles) opens by making it unlawful to "allow, permit or suffer a vehicle to be parked" in any of the locations it lists, and it authorizes a police official to move or tow a violating vehicle at the owner's expense for removal and storage charges. Subsection (d) requires that on a roadway where parking is allowed, both curb-side wheels sit within twelve inches of the curb or edge of the roadway, and on a one-way street the vehicle must be headed in the direction of travel: parking facing the wrong way against traffic flow violates this subsection even where the space itself is legal.

Subsection (e) separately bars parking within a private way or alley in a position that blocks the driveway entrance to any abutting property, alongside a companion rule against leaving less than twelve feet of clear roadway for fire apparatus. Other listed prohibitions cover intersections and rotaries (a), sidewalks (b), crosswalks (c), within ten feet of a fire hydrant (f), within five feet of a private driveway (g), within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection (h), double parking (i), near fire stations (j), obstructions near street excavation (k), posted bus stops (l), and center median strips (m). Subsection (r) caps how long any vehicle may sit in a prohibited spot: no more than five consecutive days regardless of location.