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The mayor better hurry with that emergency one-way plan for the rest of the city
By adamg on Mon, 02/16/2015 - 8:59pm
Things are getting bad out there. Around 8:40 p.m., Night Sea looked out at Brookside Avenue in Jamaica Plain, a normally two-way road now down to barely one lane, where two groups of motorists heading in opposite directions faced off, with neither budging.
UPDATE: Night Sea reports on the final outcome:
it took a lot of backing into driveways, church parking lots and side streets to end it. NOT a street I'd recommend driving on.
Earlier:
City turns some South Boston roads into one-way streets.
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One word....Insane
One word....Insane
The Zax
I just read that story to my
I just read that story to my daughter, lol
ha!
Came here to post the same thing! Not a step to the east, not a step to the west...
Is that the Casey Overpass?
They built over them?
Great video!
This oughtta be good
In the (what, 2 weeks? 5 months? It seems like 11 years) since the blizzards began, my totally subjective and biased view has been this: pedestrians being really thoughtful and stepping aside to let one another down 1-person-wide sidewalks. MBTA riders, despite the utter abyss that the T has become, mostly keeping it to themselves and not really at all going off on the beleaguered bus drivers and train conductors. And, surprise, surprise, local drivers, terrible under the best circumstances, have turned the thoughtlessness and the aggresiveness up to 11.
Proposal
How about this; you can use a space saver, but only if you shovel all the way back to the curb. I'd even let you do so preemptively; shovel out the car-sized space between a car and the curb, then get that car towed, and voila!
Leave a car-shaped cave behind, and nothing doing.
It baffles me that people don
It baffles me that people don't do this. I live on a short street that is one car wide without snow. People have no choice but to shovel all the way to the curb and in between cars. It's either that or no one gets in or out and you'll get the side of your car taken off by a plow or a delivery truck. It's really not that hard. Just keep shoveling until you hit the curb.
That should be a given
But alas, since there seems to be no parking on the other side of the street, my guess is that the curb is 5 feet from the snow/street line.
yep
This is exactly what happens. Two way streets like these are inherently narrow. No matter how well shoveled the "car" side is, the cars still occupy about a third of that direction. Add in a giant 6 foot burm in the other direction and you get this. City-directed snow removal on the no-park side is the only solution.
Tow those entitled
Tow those entitled lawbreakers that think they can park in a travel lane. Enough is enough. Someone is going to die because some asshole thinks he can ignore every parking law and stop his car wherever he wants blocking an ambulance.
Random Thought
For the record this winter has questioned my opinions on spot saving rights - but there doesn't seem to be any spot savers in this photo.
It also seems like the general attitude towards shoveling on the block has been much FTW and minimal sense of pride or upkeep has been given to shoveling out spots.
Look at all the cars still buried in from the weekend, and by the looks of it spots were barely shoveled out 3 weeks ago...
I live on a narrow one way street in Dorchester where you either use a spot saver or you're sh*t out of luck. But the street is better condition because people actually take pride in their spot and clean it out properly.
When it's a free for all, 2 way streets end up looking like this.
You're basically talking out
You're basically talking out of your ass.
Some incentive
I do think that space saving provides some level of incentive for drivers to dig out spaces that might take a lot of effort to claim. If you are on a street that has had one side restricted during a snow emergency, being able to claim it for a while *might* be enough incentive for someone to carve into the wall of snow to make a legal space, but wouldn't bother with otherwise.
Not that all "space savers" do enough work to really make the space usable.
When did the city last do an
When did the city last do an odd/even parking ban on side streets? Was it 2003, or the 1990's?
For Chrissakes
Rock, paper, scissors.
please add to list
Lochstead Avenue
Looks like a blast too bad I
Looks like a blast too bad I missed experiencing this for myself
St. Botolph Street
St. Botolph Street behind the YMCA on Huntington is like this too. It's a fairly long block so people get in there without realizing they can't get out.
At least
The sidewalk is clean.
And the drivers above figured out a way to peacefully deal with the game of snow-chicken. That's a game I have been playing on the sidewalks.
For those who say everyone is peacefully stepping aside to let others go on sidewalks, I call bullshit. Not everyone is nice on the sidewalks, from my personal experience. And yes - I step aside because we're all in this together.
"...because we're all in this
"...because we're all in this together."
That's really the best attitude you can have, at this point. Obviously everyone is frustrated, but what can you do? It's an unprecedented amount of snow. It's not only affecting some people, it's affecting nearly everyone. Just gotta grind it out.
They should make every street in the city one way ...
... out of town. Let Dedham have some of the fun.