Citizen complaint of the day: Urban assault stroller
By adamg - 3/10/11 - 9:45 am
Just because your stroller is too large to fit in your Charlestown townhouse doesn't mean you can chain it to a street sign every night. At least, not without somebody complaining to the city about it.
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Outside on sidewalk at night?
You know, dogs _will_ pee on stationary strollers, right? And the owners of said pets won't really have a reason to stop them...
Note: I own the utmost super-urban-assault stroller. But I did my damndest to keep out of peoples' way, before WarriorGirl outgrew it.
Oh, that's nothing
You've got yourself a pretender there. Around the Pru maul I regularly have to dodge three-seaters and quads! If a truck is required to beep when backing up, these things should have fog-horns for going around corners, particularly if driven by an adult who is of the opinion that it is everyone elses responsiblity to get out of his/her way, no matter how dramatic a prat fall that might involve. Really, folks, if your stroller is so long that the first kid is usually in a different time zone than you, you might consider slowing down.
Ahem. Now that I've had my rant and feel better, can I point out that the link in the original article seems to be broken? :)
inconsiderate double-wide drivers
That's why I moved out of Brookine.
Double-wides...
... won't fit on Watertown sidewalks (let alone Cambridge).
My neighbors with two tinies do have the PegPerego or Chicco tandems (front-back double).
Side-to-side doubles are just plain dangerous, especially if you've got asphalt sidewalks with potholes.
One homeless guy or wino will
One homeless guy or wino will use it for a toilet and that'll be the end of the owner leaving strollers outside.
Not Just Dog Pee
You know that school of goldfish crackers that swims inside every stroller?
The local racoons will be happy to rip that thing apart looking for them.
It's like bikes locked up
at night to a post. People do weird things, like throw trash in the baskets.
No different from locking up a bicycle
and nobody's going to complain about that, unless the bike is actually abandoned and missing parts.
Depdends..
...on how much of the sidewalk it's blocking.
If you use a stroller to save a parking spot
does it remain untouched because parking space saving is a sacred practice, or does it get ticketed because it has no resident parking sticker?
The city didn't ticker as
The city didn't ticker as "Stroller does not appear to be abandoned or causing a public safety hazard.". I wonder if that means the inspector verified that the stroller isn't obstructing the sidewalk clearance required by law.
the city won't ticket a parked car in my neighborhood that is constantly halfway obstructing a sidewalk for the same above reason. Ironically, people with strollers have to go into the street to pass.
Come on.
It has to be the same Yuppie who calls the cops because the girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk are too loud.
How do you know anything
How do you know anything about this person?
love the crazy talk
Where on earth did you come up with 'girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk' unless you actually called the cops on them?? You beemer, are bizarre.
I have a neighbor who chains her double-wide stroller to a sidewalk parking meter all of the time. Doesn't bother me in the least.
As a side note, the yuppie and hipster haters on this board are out of control. These two groups are not responsible for all that is evil in the city of Boston. Get over it.
Yuppies, hipsters, and
Yuppies, hipsters, and college students buy most of the drugs, which bankroll the gangs, which kill people.
Ergo without the trifecta of UHub angst Boston would be a tranquil utopia.
Or
Not
Seems that way to me too
> As a side note, the yuppie and hipster haters on this board are out of control
Amen.
I find it rather cute
A clever way to solve the problem of a five-story walk-up and having a toddler.
If it's off to one side, no problem. I see it all the time in the South End. And, no, no one seems to bother them.
Targets
I'd bet the dogs just make the most of the new urinal.
Maybe my family is weird, but...
Maybe my family is weird, but we try to make our kids walk as much as possible.
The nearly-2 year old is still small enough to carry most of the time, and the nearly-5 year old has a scooter that he likes more than a stroller anyway.
We considered getting a double stroller, but ultimately decided on a wagon instead — it was cheaper, they have more fun riding in it, and it'll still be useful when they outgrow strollers in a couple of years.
We have a normal single stroller, to be sure, but in practice we don't use it very often. People don't walk enough — I sure don't — so it seems like a good habit to instill while they're young, eh?
2 under 2
That's why we had a double stroller. We ditched it when the older kid reached age 4 and threw out the last remnants of the smallest stroller when the younger one was about 4.5.
They could each walk more than a mile before they were 3 years old anyway.