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Space-saver wars starting to cause collateral damage
By adamg on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 5:49pm
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Walsh got his wish, people
Walsh got his wish, people are enforcing his random space saver policy, even past the 48 hours after a snowstorm.
A few points
First, if this happened between Saturday evening and, oh, this coming Friday at 6 PM, it was within the "48 hour" rule.
Second, it's not Walsh's rule. He inherited it, just like the guy who came up with it inherited the space saver issue during what is now the 3rd snowiest winter in Boston, 1993-94.
Happened on Wednesday
I saw the person hanging up the signs. She said it happened Wednesday afternoon.
I do want to make one thing clear
Violence is wrong. I do fault the person who removed the space saver while the snow emergency was on (thus violating the Menino Rule) but still, it does totally suck that the person who didn't move it got the damage.
I don't care who started it
if you're the current mayor and you specifically endorse it with words from your own mouth instead of coming up with a real solution to Boston's lack of snow removal ability, then it's yours.
I think St. Tom came up with a solution
We are still waiting for you to come up with a different solution, complete with a means to pay for it.
Welcome to Boston! None of
Welcome to Boston! None of this is new.
Walsh has to go
Enough of these life long townie mayors.
We need someone from the outside with new ideas and fresh blood.
- The Original SoBo Yuppie
Remind me why are space savers a good idea?
This is pretty much Exhibit A why they are a terrible idea: people feel justified to vandalize.
why space savers
Because some assholes don't shovel and just pull out of a spot, then take one someone had to work to clean because they couldn't get out.
How about the mayor plow all lanes of the roads when there is a parking ban?
For one thing
Very few roads actually have parking bans - it's just the major arteries that you aren't allowed to park on. Most of Boston is lined with cars when the flakes fall.
Brilliant phrasing
"Namaste, Bitch." I must save that for the right occasion.
im no..
Bodhi but the irony here is saddening.
Feed your dharma, starve your karma.
Namaste Bitches
Unoriginal, that's the line Dina Manzo uses in the opening credits of RHONJ.
I feel very good...
...that I needed to Google "RHONJ."
You should! (guilty pleasure)
You should! (guilty pleasure)
I prefer RHOSB.
I prefer RHOSB.
Come on down to Jackie's
Come on down to Jackie's paaacckkkiee!
This person has proof that
This person has proof that the person who shoveled that spot smashed her mirror? Cars parked on the street are damaged all of the time whether it's vandalism or another vehicle side-swiping parked cars, etc. Furthermore, 'Namaste, bitches' is a line from the Real Housewives of New Jersey...
This person has proof that
This person has proof that the person who shoveled that spot smashed her mirror? Cars parked on the street are damaged all of the time whether it's vandalism or another vehicle side-swiping parked cars, etc. Furthermore, 'Namaste, bitches' is a line from the Real Housewives of New Jersey... not exactly original.
Coulda been a plow?
People really need to relax.
Not if the part about having the guy on tape is true.
I agree that people need to relax and stop claiming public property as their own.
To be fair
note-writer does specify "The apartment building has you on tape," so I'm assuming that means that the note-writer has seen the tape and knows who did it, relatively speaking.
That part sounded like a
That part sounded like a bluff.
It was on the sidewalk side
It was on the sidewalk side, not the street side.
It wasn't a plow or a car that sideswiped. It was deliberate
reminds me of grade school behavior
maybe the mayor should take the opportunity to punish all the "students" at once, no more space-savers anywhere in the city, those caught placing items in parking spots will be fined for littering. he'll figure out a way to live without a few votes when he's up for re-election.
Great idea! While he's at it
Great idea! While he's at it he should add illegal guns to the "no more" list.
it's the City's fault
The City should remove the snow from the streets. No snow, no parking space savers. Snow up to our asses, parking space savers everywhere and they'll be around until the snow is removed or it melts naturally.
You're not from around here, are you?
Ha, I finally got to say it. So...you think people need snow to put out space savers? Oh hahahahahaha.
Or
We could just enter the 21st century and have alternate side of the street parking rules on snow days - maybe get some lots to agree to the discounted parking to facilitate.
Discounted pricing
I think garages already provide reduced rate parking during snow emergencies.
Do you mean to ask them to extend that rate until all the roads are plowed?
Space saver history
Many people know that Evacuation Day celebrates the day that British troops evacuated Boston during the American Revolutionary War. But it is less well known that the British had removed colonial space-saver buoys from the harbor in order to anchor their fleet. This was the actual root of the conflict and the whole tea tax thing was just the last straw.