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By adamg - 3/2/24 - 1:03 pm

An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on the East Boston side of Bennington Street at the Revere line: Read more.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 9:37 am

WFXT reports the new BTD regulations along Walter and Bussey streets, aimed at making spaces available for Arnold Arboretum visitors, are causing problems for workers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and Faulkner Hospital.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 9:30 am

And that means you'll have until 4 p.m. on Thursday to save your parking space, the one you've so arduously dug out (except in the South End and Bay Village, where space savers are never allowed).

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 9:47 am

Brookline.News reports Brookline will soon raise the price for all its parking meters to $2 an hour - bringing them in line with what parkers have to pay across the line in the Hub. The extra money will go, in part, to fix broken meters, which could mean even more revenue.

One member of the Select Board said the increase will be fairly invisible since people nowadays mostly use an app to pay, which is far more effortless than rummaging around the center console for some spare quarters.

By adamg - 1/5/24 - 12:17 pm

And you know what that means: No space saving, you guys.

By adamg - 11/30/23 - 9:20 am
Nissan Rogue parked in a bike lane with a sign saying driver doesn't care, just go around him

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a Nissan Rogue parked in the bike lane on Tremont Street inbound just past Mass. Ave. in the South End with a very special message for bicyclists yesterday.

The long view: Read more.

By adamg - 11/29/23 - 1:06 pm
Space saver in Roslindale

Roslindale space saver back when we got snow.

Mayor Wu today announced the city will continue its 48-hour post-storm grace period for saving parking spaces for the coming winter, except in the South End and Bay Village, where space saving is never allowed. Read more.

By adamg - 11/16/23 - 1:02 pm

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the all-electric space hoarder in the municipal parking lot on Belden Square in Uphams Corner in Dorchester: Read more.

By adamg - 11/14/23 - 9:20 am

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on Itasca Street, where neither residents nor the city's BTD ticketing crew seem to know just which side of the street is OK to park on on street-sweeping days: Read more.

By adamg - 11/5/23 - 5:33 pm
What looks like a parking ticket is really a 'positive affirmation'

One of three photos posted with the complaint via Boston Reddit.

A perplexed citizen filed a 311 complaint today about the fake BTD parking ticket he or she got on Bromfield Street downtown today: Read more.

By adamg - 11/1/23 - 11:34 am

We're not the only ones who prowl 311 complaints on the regular.

At 7:09 this morning, an irate citizen filed a 311 complaint about the parking situation along Summer Street in the area of East 1st Street in South Boston: Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 3:44 pm
Chair space saver in the South End

Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni spotted this early space saver at Shawmut Avenue and Hanson Street in the South End today. Oh, wait, what's that? The South End is the one neighborhood where the city bans space savers? Are you going to tell steely South Enders they can't save a space - even if the leaves on local trees are still mostly green?

By adamg - 10/10/23 - 3:49 pm

A peeved, yet still somehow not completely outraged, citizen files a 311 complaint about a car that has long been parked on Leyden Street in East Boston: Read more.

By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:41 pm

Some 20 to 30 feet of a retaining wall behind 121 Tremont St. in Oak Square in Brighton gave way around 8:45 p.m. after a tree fell on it, leading to a mudslide that partially buried two or three cars in the building's parking lot. Nobody inside the cars, at least.

By adamg - 8/23/23 - 11:47 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on one of the potential effects of the proposal to add bus and bike lanes in the center of the road, says a September meeting has been scheduled to try to figure out a solution.

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 5:31 pm
Car with New Hampshire plates parking in resident-only spot on Horace Street

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about this New Hampshire Tesla with LINUX plates parked in a two-hour spot for more than three hours this afternoon on Horace Street just off Byron Street this afternoon.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 11:51 am
Electronic sign altered from No Parking After Dusk to No F--king After Dusk

"Noted," Jonathan Mardukas says about the slightly altered electronic signboard he spotted at the playground parking lot at McConnnell Park, overlooking beautiful Dorchester Bay.

By adamg - 5/11/23 - 9:37 am
Boston parking ticket with obscene response on a BMW

Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko came upon this charming message on the back of a BMW parked on Dix Street in Dorchester.

By adamg - 4/26/23 - 9:58 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports some Fields Corner merchants have asked BTD to look at installing meters as a way of freeing up some spaces from day-long freeloaders who park, then get on the Red Line.

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