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South Boston no country for old cones

Boston public-works pickup truck full of space savers

Whilst Ubering about town, roving UHub photographer Frank K. spotted this Public Works pickup full from a de-space-savering run through South Boston today.

The city also replied to this complaint about a space-saver-laden Princeton Street in East Boston with a cheery:

Space savers on Princeton St were reported to Public Works and they were out collecting this morning. Thank you.

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When I first read the post, I thought it said "a deep-space-savering run," which would have been cool.

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Was he roving, or Übering? You can't do both at the same time.

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Which tire shops paid this truck to go through Southie?

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...Boston DPW cancelled their request for bids for construction cones for this summer.

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because based on my walk to the bus this morning there is no way all of the space savers in Southie will fit in the back of one pickup truck

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And write newspaper articles about it!

At least they did that a few years ago ... reported as if it were the crime of the century!

The local Southie Uberalles newspaper isn't written by newcomers, either.

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The Brietbart for the Pall Mall and Doc McGillicuddy set.

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I've had a car for all of 3 weeks so I am pretty clueless, but I thought space savers were allowed 48 hours after the end of a snow emergency, which would have been 8pm tonight?

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Space-saving was outlawed last year by the City Council. (http://www.universalhub.com/2014/council-votes-ban-parking-space-saver-app).

The very same Mayor Walsh who spoke in favor of the ordinance, also says that the city isn't going to enforce it for the first 48 hours after a snow storm.

So the rules are whatever we say they are, until such time as we say they are something else.

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Do we really need to keep on going over this?

The ordinance to which you refer covers the general rental of public spaces by private parties. The snow rule, or properly the Menino Rule, only covers spaces shoveled out after snowstorms, and only for 48 hours.

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"No entity other than the City of Boston and any of its departments or designees shall have the authority to sell, lease, reserve (emphasis mine), or facilitate the reserving of any street, way, highway, road, or parkway, or any portion thereof, under the City of Boston's control"

I don't know how it could be any more clear: reserving spaces is illegal.

The Mayor has announced that he's not going to enforce the law under certain condition. Whether that is or is not within his rights is above my pay grade.

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And that's what matters. And it has nothing to do with chairs out after a snow storm.

And the mayor stated that he would continue the policy of his predecessor, which was 48 hours after a snow emergency for a shoveled out space.

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Let's give the authors of the law enough respect to assume that they meant the law to say exactly what it says.

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The Boston City Council.

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Baker was aware of the space saver situation when the Haystack ordinance was being deliberated. There was a reference to that in the Globe coverage.

This isn't like using a law from the 1700's to compel people to reveal their encryption keys.

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Boston Globe, August 14, 2014

On Wednesday, District City Councilor Matt O'Malley of Jamaica Plain urged Meyer to suspend operations in Boston immediately. Another councilor, Timothy McCarthy of Hyde Park, scolded the 24-year-old entrepreneur for characterizing Haystack as a public service that merely shares information -- rather than sells city property -- and will help ease Boston's parking crunch.

"This is not about information sharing; this is about cash," McCarthy said. "So when you talk about God's work and helping the city address its parking problems, put that to rest."

Going by that background, Bob would have a point if people were shoveling out spaces and "renting" them to drivers, but they are not, so again, while I do understand that we are in the era of alternative facts, they wouldn't hold up in court.

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The parking ban was lifted at 8 AM on Monday.

You can sign up for weather alerts by phone/text/email here

https://public.coderedweb.com/cne/en-US/BFB5F355FAB8

Here's their snow page. https://www.boston.gov/departments/311/snow-emergency-parking

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Emergency ended at 8am on Monday.

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It is 48 hours after the end...which was 8AM on Monday...so 8AM this morning.

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Nope. The purple box was still sitting pretty on a snowbank around 7 pm.

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I can edit, but can I delete? Posted my comment on the wrong post.

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Just edit your comment to read (comment deleted). In the handful of times I've had to do this over the years, Adam is usually pretty good about deleting the revised comment in short order.

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A lot of people in East Boston are using the big recycling bins supplied by the city as space savers. Is Public Works collecting those too?

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Using a trash can or recycling bin is always one that leaves the workers scratching their heads. I'm guessing they don't collect them unless it's obvious they are only being used as a space saver.

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Looks like I finally got rid of that barrel of asbestos.

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Thats how I've gotten ride of all of my CRT monitors.

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"Looks like I finally got rid of that barrel of asbestos."

Some folks know that you do as best as you can.

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needs to go! Nothing but a huge disappointment!

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Ray Flynn could give two shits if you put out a space saver. He even rdrove around with the plow drivers.

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