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Snow 'n' tow
By adamg on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 8:10pm
Courtney Sacco watched cars parked on South Street in Jamaica Plain being towed away today because it's a snow-emergency route.
Copyright Courtney Sacco. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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How much does it cost to get
How much does it cost to get it back? Maybe it's cheaper than paying for a garage or parking on a side street and spending 3 hours digging it out again. I mean, if it's less than $100, I could see it being a convenient car pickup and storage service.
I don't recall the exact
I don't recall the exact amount, but I had a car towed during a snow emergency a few years ago and it was close to $200 to get it back (and that was only 1 day of storage). The tow truck also managed to break off my front bumper. Good times.
I feel like my team just won
I feel like my team just won the superbowl or something-- those things have been blocking traffic since last friday, far enough into the travel lane that no two vehicles could pass each other. It has been taking 15-20 minute for the 39 bus to get from Canary Square to Forest Hills.
I have no sympathy.
I moved my car, the other residents moved theirs and all of a sudden a bunch of jerks thought they hit the parking spot motherlode. My street, an artery, wasn't towed for 2 storms and it's still a wreck.
You should be out applauding the tow truck drivers. :)
During the last storm I went
During the last storm I went out at about three in the morning and they were towing cars in Allston. A cop was driving along with his loudspeaker informing whoever might be up that it's a snow emergency and if no one came out to move their cars he got the tow trucks following him to haul it away
Brighton...
Back in my college days when I was the cliche student that lived in a dump in Brighton this happened ALL the time ... One road near my apartment had a little sign about 1/2 way through it that said it was a snow emergency route -- I never got towed off, but I know SOO many people that did. Sometimes the signs are, um, lacking.
With all due respect
I get that signage in Boston sucks, and it sure does, but wouldn't you think it would be your responsibility to look at the map of emergency snow arteries and plan ahead for where you can and can't park, since we're talking about around your own residence, not some random street where you visited once and honestly didn't know?
There's no respect due, to be honest
In a month long parade of snowflakes, Trixie apparently thinks she's the most special of all.
Not quite
Trixie actually said she followed the rules and never got towed. Her concern was for the others who did. If you're visiting someone, you may not know it's an emergency route. And if your friend doesn't have a car themselves, it may not occur to them to check either.
The City of Boston should handle snow emergencies differently
I do know that, during snow emergencies, both Somerville and Cambridge ban parking on the even-numbered sides of the streets, and make city municipal and school lots, as well as garages available for residents who can't find parking on the odd-numbered sides of streets. In Cambridge, at least during the storm prior to this one, they were giving free garage parking to residents with permits priority.
In Somerville and Cambridge, they enforced a "No Parking until furthur notice" policy so that there could be accelerated show removal in preparation for other storms. That's a wise move, and Boston could learn from that.
Or, as has been brought up
Or, as has been brought up before, why not enforce street cleaning all year and use those days to tow and clear excess snow? - in addition to banning parking during storms on central, emergency routes.
south-center-s.huntington corridor
The entire length of it was only plowed to the edge of the bike lane - no parking spaces plowed out the entire route. Then cars park in the bike lane ( or on south, in the travel lane) and the whole street is too narrow. How can these plow operators have done such a half-assed job? Given the situation now I agree they should ban parking on one side the whole way down. Yes, like Cambridge.