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Citizen complaint of the day: Daylight space-saving time in Jamaica Plain
By lex.galloway on Sat, 03/19/2011 - 7:07pm
Filed on Citizens Connect today from JP:
Space savers on Atherton St. in JP with no snow on the ground. Really?
Guess some people REALLY love their parking spots.
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Comments
This is why slippery slope
This is why slippery slope isn't always a fallacy.
You allow people to reserve a public space in January, what's to stop them from doing it in March?
Nothing.
Ban the practice for good, forever.
Fine in winter
If I dig out my car/spot, I damn well want the right to claim it.
In that case
I frequently pick up trash and sweep the public street and sidewalk around my house. Therefore, people need to stop parking in all the spots that I improve. Quit walking on the sidewalk, too; you didn't sweep it.
Piss poor analogy, the city
Piss poor analogy, the city allows you to save a spot during snow emergencies.
Not quite
They say you can leave your debris in the road for 48 hours after a storm and the city won't collect it during that timeframe. They don't take any stance as to the validity of anyone's claim to PUBLIC PROPERTY.
The city "allows" me to post signs on my house that tell you not to walk on my sidewalk. The only ordinance relating at all to such a thing is that the sign can't look like it's impersonating a city sign. Clearly, since the city "allows" my sign, you need to stop walking on my sidewalk. I swept it and I put up a sign.
Weak reply, as I will bet
Weak reply, anon, as I will bet that you were a defender of spot saving long before the city made its current rule allowing it (to a small degree).
Sweep it, claim is as valid as shovel it, claim it.
then buy a driveway!
then buy a driveway!
if you leave your property in the middle of the street
then I damn well have the right to toss it dead smack into the middle of your lawn so you have to walk into niiiiice deep snow to go FETCH.
Most of the people putting down "savers" were simply too lazy to park their car half a block away. I have to walk 5-10 minutes to the T as part of my commute, so they can SUCK IT.
My favorite game this winter was "what least-accessible-area can I toss parking savers into". Even better, when the snow started to melt, everyone's lawns were covered in chairs, cones, etc.
The best part? It made people realize that they didn't NEED savers, because in most parts of JP there's plenty of parking.
Might be for workers
Utility workers will use orange cones to save spots for where they need to work.
Elsewhere in JP
There are also spots on Edge Hill & Round Hill Streets in JP that have had cone-itis since at least last July.
The only way to stop this is to let the cone-owners know I rub my butt on each and every space-saver I walk by.
yeah
I've been fantasizing about sawing the ones on Edgehill in half & leaving them there.
So no one else is skeptical
So no one else is skeptical that those cones are snow-shoveling-based space savers? Couldn't someone be moving and need to reserve space for a truck? I would assume that a neighbor would have dumped any cone still doing snow-duty by now.
Just a guess ...
But I'm willing to bet the complaint was filed by a neighbor who has seen those same damn cones sitting there all damn winter and is finally damn sick of them, as opposed to some random busybody who just happens to be wandering around the area looking for things to complain about.
Given the way people complain
Given the way people complain about them here, and the ubiquity of cell phones, why not? You'd have to be a champion passive-agressive asshat to do nothing since the snow thawed, and send in a photo at this late date.
just pick up the damn things
just pick up the damn things and chuck them in a trash bin on centre street....
We all like to bitch here, but
is it too illogical to conclude that since there are two almost identical cones placed opposite each other that something other than space saving is going on? It's obviously due to whole foods annexation of the hood.
If they were Whole Foods
If they were Whole Foods cones, they'd be green, and they'd be made of hemp.
exactly
You beat me to it by about an hour...it's obviously the racist corporate fatcats at Whole Foods who did this.
Unbelievable
We are fighting in three countries now and all you can whine about are cones in someone's parking spot. Isn't it suppose to snow tomorrow?
I love your chicken
You forgot to mention that bodies are still washing up in Japan, people are still living in tents in Haiti and that ultimately the entire universe will suffer heat death.
You must be so wracked with anguish over it all.
How ridiculous can people get?
The situation in JP regarding reserved parking spaces is on its way to rivaling Southie when it comes to that.
Is it just me...
...or does the Citizen Complaint of the Day tend to be from JP more often than other areas?
For the record, I live in JP, and have only ever made a CC request to have my Xmas tree removed when the snow finally melted and the garbage men could see it again.
It's where the creative classes live
I don't know that we've run enough "citizen complaints of the day" (carefully hand selected for their entertainment value) to do a statistical analysis yet, but at least when it comes to snow-related parking complaints, JP seems to be right up there with Southie.
It would be interesting to
It would be interesting to put the addresses on a Google map to see where they come from. If I had a simple way of doing it I would.
City of Boston Data Hub
http://hubmaps1.cityofboston.gov/datahub/
The interface can be clunky and slow, but you can see complaints to the Mayor's Hotline on a map.