parking spaces
Hey, space hogger on Weld Hill Street: The city has its eye on you
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 3:53 pmIn response to a citizen complaint about a neighbor constantly using a traffic cone to claim a space on Weld Hill Street in Forest Hills, a city DPW inspector reports:
I sent an inspector to this location, they reported back that the cones are not there now. We will keep patroling the area periodically so we can try and confiscate the cones.
Winter officially arrives in Dorchester
By adamg - 1/16/12 - 11:00 pm
Dave Ahern looked out the window of his Dorchester home to see what a thin coating of snow means. He used the hashtag #yougottabekiddin
Citizen complaint of the day: EMTs shouldn't have to run half a block because parked cars block their ambulance
By adamg - 12/9/11 - 8:48 am
A disgusted citizen reports on an incident on Queensbury Street in the Fenway yesterday:
Today an ambulance was stuck because a 55 bus was turned off, and the parked cars on the other side prevented the ambulance from passing. The EMTs started running the remaining half-block to their call while the bus driver pulled his bus away from the stop to give the ambulance room to maneuver. Do three measly parking spots earn #Boston so much money that these kinds of risks are necessary?
Citizen complaint of the day: Just because it's Christmastime doesn't mean you can save spaces
By adamg - 12/5/11 - 6:04 pm
A vigilant citizen finds space savers on Rosemary Street in Jamaica Plain somewhat disconcerting on a day when the temperatures reached into the 60s and there's nary a flake on the ground.
Chicagoans are so cute: Group seeks to pre-empt winter space saving
By adamg - 11/7/11 - 11:50 am
Space saving, Eastie style, by W.E. David Halbert
Brian Kane alerts us to a group in Chicago that is trying to establish chair-free zones where residents pledge not to use space savers in the winter. Think we can get a Southie chapter started?
Citizen complaint of the day: Southie not about to let some upstart like JP steal its crown as space-saving capital of America
By adamg - 9/29/11 - 4:47 pm
Somebody who thinks saving a space on a public street is a problem reported this pre-snow space saver on F Street in South Boston.
Of course, the wily spacesaving Southie resident removed the chair before a city DPW worker could do so.
See competing early-season efforts in Eastie, Brighton, Roslindale and JP.
Citizen complaint of the day: When jurisdictions collide
By adamg - 8/2/11 - 9:52 amA vigilant citizen reports somebody at Liberty Wharf is using the bike lane on Northern Avenue for valet parking, to which the city replies, oops, nothing we can do, that's Massport territory.
Earlier:
BPD wants authority to enforce the law on Massport land.
Urban tree rings
By adamg - 7/30/11 - 11:39 amPenny Cherubino spots a car with 13 1/4 Back Bay residential parking stickers on the back window.
Props to Punterjoe for the headline.
Citizen complaint of the day: Even people in East Boston think it's winter now
By adamg - 7/27/11 - 1:47 pmHow is Boston bucking this global-warming thing? A vigilant citizen reports somebody was saving a space on Saratoga Street with a cinder block.
Earlier:
Citizen complaint of the day: Somebody in JP still thinks it's winter, too
By adamg - 7/25/11 - 1:06 pmToday's complaint of the day comes from Danforth Street, where somebody keeps saving a space with a chair and an apparently unidentifiable pink-and-purple thing.
