Don't bother looking for a parking space around the Common on Thursday

They're more expensive, but they're just as fast as the gas scooters, plus the "cool factor" of using no gas. X-treme Scooters sells a variety of Chinese imports:
http://www.x-tremescooters.com/

Mine is the XM-3500 on that site. Range is about 40 miles, charging time 6 hours, top speed 45MPH.

Where does it say anything about blocking traffic?

And how is legally using a parking space, as the new law will demand "hogging"? What will they be ticketed for? Following the law?

They have business at the state house (protest) and they will park to attend this protest.

And if youre going to work, you certainly should not be using street parking.

Well, that's a shame. I was out of your way and we were all doing fine before our duly represented state body went and screwed up the laws to benefit nobody except the RMV. Take it up with them.

We're just giving you a taste of the problems that will arrive in the coming months as we are forced to register our scooters as "limited use vehicles" OR we ditch our scooters altogether and go back to our cars, since the benefits of a scooter in this city and state just went down to near nil.

I can't speak for the organizer or anyone else who might participate, but I'm considering going for all of the above.

The new status is absurd. There is nothing inherently different about 30 mph and 35 mph or even 39 mph and there's nothing more dangerous about my scooter on August 1 than there is now. Has there been any kind of study to suggest that scooters in MA are a dangerous threat that needs more regulation? According to this law, if my vehicle were stated as a maximum 41 mph, I'd be a motorcycle AND allowed on the highways...but only doing 41 mph down the Pike....because that makes a lot of sense. Meanwhile the guy doing 2 mph slower has to take the back roads. It's not even entirely clear what defines the maximum speed of the vehicle. It's not on any of the paperwork that came with my scooter and it's not very easy to find online anywhere. Besides, if I put on a simple washer on the transmission, I can restrict myself to whatever speed I want. I've even found something that claims to electronically restrict my engine...with a key fob that lets me turn it on and off at my leisure. Speed should have nothing to do with this. On top of that, there was a financial incentive to getting a scooter (no insurance, simple $40/2yr registration, no extra licensing/classes, no parking costs) and most of that goes out the window. I bet you won't even be able to find an insurance company willing to sign up your 49cc scooter on Aug 1.

Boston's parking laws and basic setup around town is absurd in light of these changes. I'm sure Tinlin's word is golden, but you're never going to know with a meter maid what they're going to ticket or not. And if you get that lucky ticket on your newly plated vehicle, what are you going to appeal? The rule says "no plated vehicles parking on the sidewalk". It doesn't say "unless Tinlin says it's okay".

The whole thing is absurd and doesn't benefit anyone but the RMV's (and potentially BTD's) coffers. They claim they can't "track" us unless they plate us and that's even more absurd. They've been "tracking" us through registration, except they never figured out how to enter that information into their computers. Instead, they're lazily using "plates" as a means to get us into the system already in place. The same identifying information could have been put on our sticker all this time (and has been, it just never went from there into a computer) and left us out of this "limited use" classification discussion by continuing to leave us in the motorized bicycle category.

But no, they started swinging a sledgehammer instead of a tack hammer. Now they've royally monkeyed up everything beneficial about driving a scooter (seriously, name one incentive other than fuel usage that remains about using a scooter in this city that used to exist before they were nearly all turned into "limited use" vehicles).

By the way, there have already been scooters the exact same size as mine that never came close to fitting the motorized bicycle definition (like a LX150) because of engine size. They've already had to get motorcycle plates and have NEVER been able to park on the sidewalk. So, they've basically had to find creative ways (removable tags, rain cover, etc) to hide in plain sight this whole time, because they still have the same problem with parking (too small to be taken seriously in a full space, easy to knock over/steal/etc if not chained...).

So, it's a little bit of everything. It's a ruining of an entire class of vehicles through over-regulation and nonsensical "mph" limitations and adding the additional parking headaches.