Yes, the South End, where space savers are officially banned. The Globe reports on the incident, which follows tire slashing in Jamaica Plain.
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What a lovely neighborhood!
By tofu
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 10:12am
What a lovely neighborhood! That'll teach those yuppies!
Ha ha
By anon
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 10:24am
Space saving isn't as bad as those who don't live in the City would like you to believe. As a Newbie to the City I actually like the idea of saving parking spaces. And as a pre-emptive response, yes I own two cars.
But it is as bad
By adamg
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 12:23pm
As those of us who do live in the city would have you believe.
I will admit, however, living on a street where, on non-snow days, there are always more parking spaces than cars, my main blood-pressure raiser now is the growing number of people shoveling their parking spaces into the street. Stop that, you yard-owning jerks!
Why on earth
By Sally
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 3:22pm
would anyone living in the city own two cars? You like tickets and shoveling that much?
Because
By perruptor
Sun, 02/15/2015 - 7:55am
Sometimes the Jaguar feels right, but other times, only the Rolls will do.
Jeeves, call me a taxi! I don't want to lose my spaces!
Blame Menino
By anon
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 10:43am
Giving a partial blessing the to space saver practice always seemed like a mistake to me.
It's inevtiably perpetuating the old school Boston "street justice" culture.
The rules on the books are that you can't claim scarce public property like that, you can't post notes threatening to key a car or injure a person, you can't damage property (keying, slashing tires, smashing lights). I'm fine with those rules, for rights and order, and I don't like an official sending mixed messages about them.
If people want the traditional way of doing things in Boston, that's not only space-savers, but nepotism, cronyism, graft...
The time is here for intolerance of space savers
By slums of harvard
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 11:09am
Clearly, there needs to be something done about the entitlement surrounding space savers.
Tolerating space savers in some parts of the city because they are 'customary' to the region is only reinforcing certain people's beliefs that said space is theirs.
It is mine
By anon
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 1:41pm
I paid a bunch of kids $50 to shovel out my car. What so you can park there?
Key words: my car
By Sally
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 3:27pm
You get to keep your car, ok? What you don't get is free reserved parking for what--the rest of the winter? It's a public street. Why is this so hard to understand?
You paid a bunch of kids to
By tofu
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 11:04pm
You paid a bunch of kids to SHOVEL out your car so you can MOVE it. Not so you can park it there in-fucking-definitely. Get it through your thick skull - YOU DON'T OWN PUBLIC PROPERTY!
Performance art
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 11:26am
I wonder if it would be possible to take a junker with bald tires and move it around to "saved" spots.
The technology exists for detection of rapid derpressurization. Coupled with wifi, a such a car could detect such an event and spray dye.
All of this being recorded by a web cam, of course.
A suitable warning posted on the target car would be interesting, too. "This vehicle is equipped with video surveillance features and may automatically retaliate against vandalism".
This could even be a sociology and engineering double major senior project.
Are the Colts in town?
By DS Bruce Robertson
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 11:59am
Are the Colts in town?
Seems like a polite request:
By dnkaye
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 1:18pm
"I slashed your tires because it's easier to drive through the snow with deflated pressure, so now you can easily move off my public property." -That right there, people, is pure educated Bostonian science for ya.
Maybe a space saving tax or something is in order. We could donate the profits to the needy, like the T.
I just don't understanding
By fox_orian
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 1:25pm
I just don't understanding slashing tires.
"You took my spot. NOW I'LL MAKE SURE YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE!"
SE Forum and neighbors will do the right thing...
By Steve Fox
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 1:38pm
Neighbors and associations throughout the South End have responded to this cowardly vandalism and threatening behavior by doing what actual caring neighbors do when someone faces acts of criminal street justice. Rather than letting fear and entitlement by threat win, we have set up an account on the youcaring.com fundraising portal:
http://www.youcaring.com/help-a-neighbor/help-sout...
Once they learned of this first act of vandalism, many South End Forum member associations and individual neighbors have pledged to help make our neighbor whole, and so we set up a portal to allow making a donation--no matter the amount-- fast and easy for anyone who thinks that we need to support one another in difficult times and help to set a different example for how neighbors treat one another. There are too many real and unavoidable challenges that all Bostonians face during these difficult times to allow acts of anger and behaviors designed to intimidate to impose on the lives of innocent and responsible neighbors.
Southenders knew that our initiative would meet some initial resistance, but we are more committed than ever to try to end practices and behaviors that tear at the fabric of our community rather than build and enhance it. We're going to help a fellow neighbor and everyone is welcome to join with us in doing the right thing.
Five Parking Spaces on Greenwich Park cleared to the pavement
By Bart
Mon, 02/16/2015 - 9:26pm
I've never understood space savers! What I do not tolerate are lazy folks who will spend hours in the gym and won't shovel a little snow. Not boasting yet I've cleared numerous spaces as part of my morning training routine. One hour in at the gym or outside tossing snow... It's all a matter of how you look at it. Be a Giver not a Taker.
Slashing someones tires is
By anon
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 1:57pm
stupid, but its equally moronic to blatantly steal someones spot after the last few week we've had. What did they think was going to happen? Someone was going to detail their vehicle.
Aaargh!
By Jo
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 4:07pm
ITS NOT YOUR SPOT. YOU DON'T OWN IT. YOU HAVE NO DEED OR TITLE TO IT!
Its unfortunate, but you are not the only one who has had to shovel out a car this month. The person parking in "your" space probably had to shovel out his space, and so on and so on.
Be a little civic minded and not a selfish and entitled twit.
"someone's spot"
By Northie
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 4:26pm
nobody owns any spot.
Street cleaning starts in 2 weeks.
By downtown-anon
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 3:59pm
http://www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/cleanlines...
This is for Beacon Hill, but same for South End.
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7395/16344786697_97...
New type of space saver
By downtown-anon
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 4:05pm
Just dump all the snow from the sidewalk into the space.
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/16504773396_84...
space savers
By Petey
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 4:49pm
It seems counter intuitive, counter productive, and counter-community to use space savers when snow is severely reducing the space on the street for cars. I believe we should challenge ourselves to seek better solutions. Space savers do nothing to add back space in our neighborhoods; in fact a person who is using a space saver while they're at work for 8 hours is occupying twice as many spaces all day as they normally do. When you look at an entire neighborhood of people leaving discarded furniture in the street it appears that they have completely worsened the problem we are all experiencing together. Be a good neighbor, help people dig out, be creative and generous with sharing our public streets. Boston will be a better place.
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