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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By adamg - 4/8/23 - 10:32 am
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the way the owners of three cars have figured out a sort of musical-chairs approach to always getting a parking space on Princeton Street - and blocking everybody else: Read more.
By adamg - 4/7/23 - 9:58 am
Jamaica Plain News reports somebody who apparently went for a walk around the pond forgot to do that and so his or her car rolled onto the Jamaicaway, where, no, it didn't cause a 17-car pileup, but did just sit there for 20 minutes until some passing garbagemen and a state trooper pushed it out of the way.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 10:48 pm
Shamus Moynihan spotted this helpful parking sign a resident of Oakview Terrace in Jamaica Plain has tied to a tree.
By adamg - 3/28/23 - 9:50 am
Transit Police report that early Sunday, a man plowed into the cement-anchored sign at one of the Hyde Park Avenue parking lots at the Readville commuter-rail stop, called an Uber and then left the destroyed remains of his car behind.
Police say they tracked down the man and will charge him with leaving the scene of an accident.
By adamg - 3/16/23 - 11:36 pm
The city reports that all parking meters are free all day on Friday, OK, officially because it's Evacuation Day, not St. Patrick's Day, but still.
By adamg - 3/9/23 - 2:11 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about a gas hog from Connecticut whose owner has managed to defeat the reason Boston's been busy installing EV-charging stations in municipal parking lots, like the one on London Street in East Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/23 - 11:39 am
The Boston Licensing Board today began grilling operators of new restaurants how they plan to keep their establishments from becoming street-clogging destinations for food-delivery drivers who insist on parking right out front even if that means double or even triple parking. Read more.
By adamg - 2/14/23 - 8:44 am
Given the amount of snow we've gotten this season, somebody on Mountain Avenue in Malden probably figured a salad (with croutons) in a plastic bowl was enough to warn others off the space they'd so meticulously not cleared this morning, as roving UHub photographer Brian Coonley shows us.
By adamg - 2/13/23 - 10:05 am
A fed-up citizen files a 311 report about a Porsche Cayenne that's been sitting on Creighton Street in Jamaica Plain for months now - with a 2018 rejection sticker. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/23 - 12:00 pm
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that a woman who has the right to park in a space at a North End condo building, even though she doesn't live there, has to pay property tax on the space. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/22 - 11:51 am
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about a car with Rhode Island plates just parked on Barnes Avenue overnight without a single orange ticket or tow truck pulling it away, and he or she is getting rather fed up: Read more.
By adamg - 10/27/22 - 12:49 pm
A West Broadway condo association has sued the developers who put up their building and a man who lives down the street but who has a deed to one of its parking spaces, saying the developers sold him the space after they had already given up control of the building. Read more.
By adamg - 10/25/22 - 12:51 pm
Josh Bittker snapped the spiffy new lane near MGH yesterday: "The new Cambridge St. protected parking lane looks great!"
By adamg - 7/27/22 - 1:12 pm
The owners of 24 condos at 88 and 90 Wareham St. in the South End are suing the developer, its real-estate agent and the manufacturer and installer of their building's car-stacking garage system, which they say has never worked right and which they say folded itself into complete unusability a couple months ago. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/22 - 11:35 am
Upset citizens from Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston filed 311 complaints this morning about ticketing and towing for street cleaning even though they got e-mail from the city street-sweeping list that there wouldn't be any towing on Bunker Hill Day. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/22 - 11:11 am
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report this morning about how somebody on N Street in South Boston decided to use a pressure cooker as a space saver:
Probably not the best idea given Boston's history with this type of device. Please pick up the pressure cooker.
By adamg - 2/2/22 - 10:28 pm
A concerned nob filed a 311 complaint yesterday about this simply ghastly space saver at Spruce Street and Spruce Court on Beacon Hill:
Please remove, this isn't Southie
By adamg - 2/2/22 - 2:51 pm
Jaffejoe617 spotted this discarded note from a car parked in East Boston today.
By adamg - 1/31/22 - 9:33 pm
Sunday, people shoveled out spaces. Monday, they left notes for the other people who parked there. Welcome to Dot discovered one note on Welles Avenue in Dorchester today.
Earlier (like from 2015, the Year of the Blizzard):
The Space Saver's Manifesto.
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