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South End condo owners sue over expensive 'puzzle' parking system they say collapsed like a cheap Jenga tower
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do the bike racks still work?
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It is tough to be a rich city
It is tough to be a rich city dweller.
Sounds like they have good reason to sue, though.
Regardless of how "easy" or "tough" life is for them, they were sold something that didn't work, and then wasn't supported properly. I hope they prevail.
So tough to be a rich city
So tough to be a rich city dweller.
Where's the link?
Video or it didn't happen.
Just google "car stacker"
Many, many stories.
Almost seems like a conspiracy, no?
I think it's State Regulations, not City.
Per the State Board of Elevator Regulations:
"The Division of Occupational Licensure’s (DOL) Board of Elevator Regulations regulates the construction, installation, alteration, and operation of all elevators in Massachusetts. The term ''elevator'' includes moving stairways, dumbwaiters, moving walks, material lifts, vertical reciprocating conveyors, and dumbwaiters with automatic transfer devices, wheelchair lifts, automatic people movers and other associated devices, that are commonly included within the elevator industry. All elevator constructors and operators must be licensed by the Board."
Seems like the regulate anything that moves heavy stuff around and can randomly crush you.
Here's an example of an automated parking
system by the same company currently in use in a Back Bay luxury condo. It sure looks awfully maintenance-intensive, liable to all sorts of routine problems for which you'd want a local, quick-response engineer on call.
Who folds down the passenger
Who folds down the passenger-side mirror? Or is it just wide enough to fit if you only fold down the driver-side mirror?
That's nicely illustrative
of why this would be regulated as an elevator -- the driver has to physically be on top of the moving machinery at some points, and would be at risk of death if it malfunctioned. It's not just cars at risk.
Car stacking residents of Beacon Hill...
Have yet another reason to break out their snooty glares on South End residents
Bad look for the developer
Bad look for the developer - especially since Boston assessor shows they still own 9 unsold units at 88 Wareham. Good luck moving those.
Hmm
Im not one to side with the ppl who can afford these places (aka the wealthy) but they have a point. They paid for something they aren't getting, and its created problems too.
yeah first world problems, but they paid for something they aren't getting, and considering how much they paid for said thing.. I'd sue too.
That is my sentiment too
This is goes beyond subjective ballyhooing about some problem with say, fit and finish, after they the client approved the final plans. Assuming the details above are true and correct, this looks like a pretty clear breach of contract, which is just not cool.
Don't screw your customers over to the point where they have to litigate. That's "How Not to Suck at Business 101."
Hear hear
On the comments where these people should get their money's worth...but I'll also ask what the point was of spending all that money to live, well, in the South End.
Luxury also exists in places not down the street from open-air pharmacies. Why not overbid for shelter and parking in those places instead?
I'm one of those fortunate, privileged types that
could spend the money to live in the South End, though I've been here long enough to remember when crime was still enough of an issue to deter some buyers: I had to lobby my wife pretty hard to consider it. (She ended up loving living here.)
I now live with the ancillary fallout of the opioid crisis, have to step over the semi-conscious on my way home pretty regularly, dodge needles in the park. But I don't fret about getting mugged or my car broken into as I once did.
I now just curse the hideous, damnable Sacklers and feel empathy for those poor addicts, though I'm grateful to hear that the courts are holding out the possibility of Long Island coming back online through a reluctant Quincy, maybe getting a few more of those folks the treatment they need and taking them out of the reach of their current predators.
Still grateful to live here, have no plans to move, despite those tiny first-world problems.
Does "piling up" mean
Does "piling up" mean horizontally or vertically?
While some parking systems move cars vertically, it sounds like this one just shuffled the cars around horizontally, hence the complaint that they shouldn't have needed an elevator technician.