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Easy cone, easy go
By adamg on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 10:12am
Around 7:15 a.m., Rory Nolan looked out the window in Brighton to see that somebody had put down a preventative space-saving cone. Nope, you gotta work for that cone, the city replied: Shortly before 10 a.m., the cone was gone.
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Whelp
the battle
of 18 inches deep
OK...
...that was funny.
stop government Hand-me-outs
its time for people to stop looking for government hand-me-outs (free resident parking permits). the going rate for a parking spot in south boston is $150 to $200 a month (higher in other neighborhoods). if you want a permit, go to city hall and pay for a yearly permit for $1,800+
parking problem solved and government moochers reduced.
- a south boston community member
If people had to pay that
If people had to pay that much for a parking permit, keying a car would likely turn to something much more violent. People are nasty if they "lose" their free space that they haven't even shoveled. Imagine if they had paid for that spot..
OR
The reason parking spots are so valuable is because you don't have to deal with parking bans, driving around looking for a spot, space savers, etc. I'm fine with Boston excise taxes and property taxes subsidizing free parking for residents. People that can afford off-street parking can buy/rent off-street parking.
Property taxes and excise
Property taxes and excise taxes are way too indirect to apply to on-street resident parking. Property tax is levied against the value of your little parcel, without regard to curb space. Excise tax is levied against the book value of your car. A beater cargo van pays a fraction the tax of a brand new tiny Smart car, even though it occupies twice the space.
Charging money for resident parking stickers is reasonable and simple to administer. If the city wanted to keep it revenue-neutral and lower property taxes at the same time they start charging for permits, that would be reasonable too.
ah yes, paid parking will solve all of our problems.
there definitely won't be a secondary market or favoritism in distribution.
at ~$200 a month, i assume the city is going to shovel/maintain the street parking (beyond normal road maintenance)
am i guaranteed a parking space if i pay? will violators be towed? is the spot a bailment or a lease (see: liability)?
STOP!
You're making him have to think!
i wouldnt worry about that
blood from a stone, etc
Yes!
Yes, just as you are guaranteed to catch the full limit if you pay for a fishing license.
You've never
taken a basic economics class, have you? The concept of supply and demand applies here:
Many people pay for these spots to avoid the hassles of finding street parking. That's where the value comes from. Once the city starts guaranteeing spots, which they would have to do if they're charging a premium for parking permits, the value of those private spots goes down drastically, thus driving the overall value of parking down and potentially costing the city more to maintain those spots than it sees in permit fees.
And what happens if someone needs a temporary moving permit that would take someone's spot that they paid for? What about snow emergencies, special events, etc? Is the city going to pay for people to garage cars they can't park in the spots they paid for?
What the city should do, is stop the stupid space saver practice altogether.
However, something I've said here and elsewhere many times: If Boston is going to allow space saving and the whole 48 hour rule, those pace savers should have to be rented from the city, with each containing a barcode or RFID chip that ties the saver to a registration. Any other trash in the street gets tossed, and if you use your space saver outside of the allowed snow emergency + 48hrs, you get a $$$ ticket, with the potential to lose your saver privilege if you continuously abuse it. There could even be an option for households to rent one short term for rental cars/visitors.
space saver rental
cool lets webify it or whatever ill market it u dev it. we can call it Coner.
conr
Surely, "conr"?
konr
Final answer.
Legitimate cars
If the car parked in the spot isn't Legitimate, it will Take Care Of Itself
Will you let me park?
Will you let me park?
No, we will not let you park!
No, we will not let you park!
Let him park!
Let him park!
So you think you can save
So you think you can save space and spit on my car?
Will the city cover the inevitable slashed tires,
broken windows and keyed doors when the original coner returns from work?
For the most part those days
For the most part those days are over. Putting a cone out before it snows is ridiculous and these coners know this but try anyways out of desperation.
"The cone was gone..."
That's the opening line of my first novel.
Cones are the victims
There is plenty of shame to go around on both sides of this debate. But the person who both sides should direct their vitriol toward is the one who originally saw the cone. Had they not brought it to our attention we'd never had known it happened and wouldn't be upset about it. How do we know this isn't a "fake news" item. Perhaps the cone was placed there as a false flag. Ever think of that? The one who smelt it, dealt it .
typical boston resident