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Resourceful resident figures out how to get two spaces in the snow
By adamg on Thu, 02/12/2015 - 8:31am
As roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko noticed on Townsend Street in Roxbury, the key is digging out the sidewalk next to the space you dug out and voila: Two parking spaces. Because, really, who needs a sidewalk in the snow?
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That's genius
It's not like you can tow them.
Might not tow...
But you certainly can ticket it.
Looks like 2 tickets to me
One ticket for parking on a sidewalk, and one for parking too far from the curb. This laziness knows no bounds.
Bonus points
for blocking a set of stairs!
Something something entitlement
So cars own the sidewalks now too?
Don't you know that when they
Don't you know that when they get the parking sticker they paid $0 for it gives them the right to park anywhere they want, including sidewalks and bike paths, and that they own the public property they moved some snow around 2 weeks prior?
There might not be a fee for
There might not be a fee for a sticker, but Boston residents do pay an excise tax on vehicles. Mine was nearly $600 this year alone.
I don't even live in the city....
...but your excise tax has nothing to do with parking, as I'm sure you'll hear soon.
Well, that certainly gives
Well, that certainly gives you the right to park on the sidewalk. Who walks, anyway? Losers.
Too bad it's not one of those hollow sidewalks.
A sinkhole would be a much more appropriate punishment than a mere ticket!
Boot the outer car
Then tell them the person who would come unlock the boot can't seem to get down the sidewalk.
Actually....
It might not be a bad idea to require or allow cars to park on the sidewalks on certain streets during storms, with a very strictly enforced caveat that they be moved within a few hours after a snow emergency ends. That way, the sidewalks will be relatively clear of snow when the cars are removed and it will allow plows to get to the curb.
with a very strictly enforced
What on earth makes you think the would "strictly enforce" this rule when they don't enforce any of the other parking rules, strictly or otherwise?
Where are people supposed to
Where are people supposed to walk when there are cars on the sidewalks? And the car owners would just push the snow from their cars onto the sidewalk. And now the cars are plowed in on the sidewalk and the sidewalks are cracked from the weight of the cars. And "plowing to the curb" really means pushing snow from the street onto the sidewalks as you'll notice at every intersection in the city.
My neighbor who goes ballistic
every time anyone has moved her space savers so she can park her monster SUV hasnt even bothered to shovel the sidewalk alongside her car--in front of her house, aside from carving a path from her steps to the car. Because hey--as long as she can get to her car, who the f cares, right?
Don't Let Her Get Away With It
I hope you reported her. I am sure these past couple weeks ISD or whoever tickets non-shovelers is well snowed in with such complaints. But someone needs to teach that person a lesson.
Citizens Connect
Check it out one of these days. It's loaded with people notifying when sidewalks aren't shoveled. In some cases they are closed with a 'No Violation' comment but in others the followup note is that tickets were issued.
How well do you know your other neighbors?
Might be fun to have a "shovel the sidewalk onto her SUV" party...
Different trick on Melcher St.
There are 2-3 car spaces shoveled, but only one break in the "wall". If only one car is there, it is at the entrance.
I guess one could shovel out the wall and take the trailing spaces, since these people cannot in any way claim to own them, but nobody has as yet and that wall is now 6-7' tall.
or just shove the snow piles in
if they're blocking empty spaces, help fill those empty spaces with snow.
Repeat offenders
They were there again tonight. The inner one completely blocked the sidewalk. I called the BTD, with location and plate numbers, and as much as I was tempted to did not vandalize them.