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Signs? Who needs signs?
By adamg on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 4:04pm
They were towing cars off Copenger Street on Mission Hill today, apparently for getting in the way of street sweepers. Only problem, AMO notes, is that the signs declare "No Parking" for the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month and today is the third Wednesday.
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alternate side of the street parking?
There are streets that have "2nd & 4th Wednesday" signs on one side and "1st & 3rd Wednesday" signs on the other. Maybe this car was on the "1st & 3rd Wednesday" side.
This is the set up in my
This is the set up in my neighborhood, odd side of the street on odd weeks (1 and 3) and the even side on even weeks (2 and 4).
The online listing is still not accurate for some areas. We switched from Fri to Wed, but the online database still says Fridays. I still get an email on Thursdays reminding me that street cleaning is Friday. That'd be a day late and a dollar short.
Have you reported the
Have you reported the discrepancy in the online listing?
Copenger St also isn't listed
Copenger St also isn't listed on the city's street cleaning web site: http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/sweeping/?...
They changed all the street
They changed all the street cleaning signs on Mission Hill over the winter but haven't updated the website.
Make Way for Street Sweepers
Saw a mass exodus of cars on South Huntington, near Riverway Station, earlier. People were running down the street flailing at the tow drivers while a sweeper sat in wait.
Streetsweeping
is the biggest moneymaking scam the City perpetrates on it's citizens. It also does not make the streets any cleaner, maybe for the day.
Yeah, man, garbage is cool.
Yeah, man, garbage is cool.
Nuh uh!
Not unless it has rodents!
Accumulated crud
The first sweep of the season in particular picks up the leaf litter, human litter, sand and general crud that's accumulated over the winter. Monthly sweeps (in the Fens, Riverway etc) also keep abandoned cars from sitting there forever.
It sucks to be towed (although there's generally fair warning), the fees are legalized robbery, but regular street sweeping does contribute something to life in the city.
In my neighborhood, there's
In my neighborhood, there's never very much stuff in the gutters. Not even at the end of the winter.
On Parker Street last month
I saw the street sweeper maneuver around parked cars, and then tow trucks came for them half an hour later.
Really?
I thought that the free storage of private vehicles on public property, with the caveat that the owners would be burdened with the responsibility to occasionally move the vehicles off the public way at the posted time so that the City can clean and maintain its property, was a pretty good deal for the beneficiaries of the free subsidized parking. I didn't realize it was all just a big moneymaking scam, taking advantage of the chumps who don't know how to read a street sign.
Must not be from Southie
Those spots are owned by the residents in the houses behind them, given to them by king mumbles (obvs).
Sounds
like you and the neighbors suck.