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Citizen complaint of the day: Cone being held captive
By adamg on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 11:46am
Our municipal cone crisis continues. A concerned citizen (ed. note: Please note I did not write "cone-cerned" again) reports somebody used steel wire to attach a traffic cone to a tree on Charter Street.
The city replies a worker removed the cone, but this earlier report suggests whoever tied the cone to the tree will do it again, since they've done it before.
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Comments
Space Saver?
Looks like someone's space saver, perhaps? And tied to the tree so no one can steal it?
it's a space saver. i see it
it's a space saver. i see it used all the time. two other oldtimers use cones on henchman everyday too. city does nothing about it in the north end. shocking.
Free the Cone!!!
someone had to say it...
oh wow, there's a real special snowflake in that neighborhood
https://mayors24.cityofboston.gov/reports/514cb824...
Bikes "making her way out of the house with her kids more difficult."
Oh lordy me! Someone fetch the vapors...
"Special snowflake?"
How is it that asking people to obey the law and not use the public sidewalk for storage of personal property, and asking the city to enforce the law, makes one a "special snowflake?"
Didn't you know? Expecting
Didn't you know? Expecting public ways to be publicly accessible is exactly the same level of entitlement as complaining that the city planted the wrong color pansies.
The best description of this phenomenon ever
is still this comment:
http://www.universalhub.com/2012/winter-officially...
Because anyone who wants laws to be enforced and who wants public property to be available to everyone is "not from the neighborhood" and "doesn't know how we do things around here."
That is pure awesome.
That is pure awesome.
Get over it
This cone is used by two elderly people who have a handicapped adult child. Yeah, yeah, they shouldn't be leaving stuff in the street, but this isn't your run of the mill I'm putting this here because I demand this closest spot to my house. The handicapped space is there to accommodate their child. And having seen this personally, I have never noticed it placed in any way as a tripping hazard. I do think it could potentially harm the tree.
i am sympathetic to their
i am sympathetic to their situation, but a handicap space was placed directly in front of their building for their benefit, but not their exclusive use. there are at least 5 handicap spaces within 40 yards of their building of which most are being saved with cones. if parking is that much of a concern, perhaps the north end is not the best neighborhood for their family anymore. the reality is that street parking in the north end is scarce, but more importantly public, so no person should be allowed to reserve a space for personal use. between saved handicap spaces and questionably-gained handicap place cards in the north end, the city has a problem and does nothing about it. everybody - even the self-enititled old-timers who think they own the neighborhood - need to play by the rules.
So the North End shouldn't
So the North End shouldn't accomodate families with handicapped members, who have been able to make it work for 50+ years? Wow.
And "self-entitled old-timers"? Yikes. Yes, the city should address problem spots/placards...This isn't one of them.
actually
the city does accomodate these people. the city puts a handicap space directly in front of their building. do you want to start privatizing street and resident parking spaces?
Accommodate what?
"The North End" does not own or control the public streets; they are controlled by the people of the city of Boston, who, through our elected government, have decided how much of our finite resources to allocate to accommodating families with handicapped members.
What we have decided is to provide a handicapped space near the residence of a family with handicapped members, but not to provide the family with exclusive use of that space.
Now you might argue that that's not enough, or that it's too much, or that it's just right. But it is what we've decided, and neither the family in question nor their immediate neighbors has any right to take more than that, i.e., to claim exclusive private use of the space.