Let a thousand duck boats quack

By adamg on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 4:22pm

Boston today lifted its moratorium on new permits for sightseeing vehicles.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says there's no longer any reason to limit the number of permits for tour vehicles given that the original reason for the moratorium - the Big Dig - is long finished. The moratorium went into effect in 1998.

In February, a Medford man sued Boston in federal court over the ban on new licenses. Assuming the city's decision today doesn't make that case moot, it wasn't even scheduled for pre-trial motions before May, 2010.

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By fenwayguy on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 6:38pm.

Winnah!

Not sure what the first link

By anon on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 9:02pm.

Not sure what the first link has to do with this topic; it takes you to the BPD site and an incident report from February 2008 (no mention of rogue sightseeing vehicles).

Link fixed

By adamg on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 10:01pm.

Sorry about that.

seaworthy?

By EM Painter on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 9:37pm.

I've seen those big ducks in the harbor.... they look like a bus just drove into the water and is listing to starboard before a capsize.

But, are there still "no quacking" zones?

By merlinmurph on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 10:03pm.

n/t

Great, so now I have to

By Katia on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 9:38am.

Great, so now I have to dodge more duckboats that totally cut me off if I bike on St. James or Huntington.