Accord­ing to the Boston Globe (“Park­ing vouch­ers urged for Sox fans,” May 17, 2006), the cost of park­ing cars at rained-out games has become an undue bur­den for attendees:

[Lee] Vaughan, a West Rox­bury res­i­dent, said she spent $474 before the Red Sox-Yankees game on May 2 started: $400 for tick­ets, $40 for park­ing, $22 for a sou­venir cap, and $4 for Cokes.

When the game was called off before the first pitch because of rain—45 min­utes after Vaughan and her 5-year-old son, Jack, had parked—she was angry and took her com­plaint to the City Council.

”When you add every­thing up, it’s ridicu­lous,” Vaughan said yesterday.

Vaughan is ask­ing City Coun­cil to force park­ing lot oper­a­tors to refund park­ing charges when games are cancelled.