Walsh: 48-hour space-saver rule will remain in effect this winter - except in the South End

Or you could just shoot someone over the space like this guy in Dorchester did last year.
https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/1-Person-Sho...

Its ridiculous that a mayor of a major city endorses a system based on threats, violence, littering and theft of public property.

Former South End renter here. The neighborhood has million-dollar condos and $3,000 studios, sure. It also has multiple large housing projects and Section 8 buildings, and everything in between. I lived for years on a block with both the extremely rich and extremely poor back-to-back. On the same street, people parked their BMWs in their building's garages, and others street-parked deteriorating Toyotas from the 90s. This isn't the Back Bay we're talking about; suggesting that all or most South End residents can afford to garage their cars suggests you should take a stroll further from the Southwest Corridor, and closer to Harrison.

That being said, I approve of the space saver ban closer to the core of the city, where public works should be able to clear the streets & vacant spaces completely.

Mmhmm. And where should visiting nurses/home care workers/contractors/regular visitors park? If one of those people moves your cone/chair/trash and parks in your space, are you entitled to park in someone else's? Is that person then justified in raining down "street justice" upon you or your car for parking there?

Glad you're admitting it, people cry about "their" parking spot yet they didn't pay a dime for the permit sticker.

How abouts we start charging for the parking and couple it with more rigorous snow clearing? Move cars and plow to the curb. Nah that just makes too much sense.

We're a society of laws. You can claim to have any unwritten code you like, but most of the behaviors you're condoning explicitly or tacitly here are criminal, and if you are party to them, you deserve the full smackdown of the actual law, not your barbaric, imaginary jungle law.

Let's take a typical downtown neighborhood with, say, 1000 parking spaces and 4000 valid stickers.

So, the night of a storm, 1000 cars are parked in legal street spaces, and the other 3000 are parked elsewhere (paid garages, people out of town, at work overnight shift, etc.

Do you really believe that the owners of those 3,000 cars that weren't parked on the street the night of the storm, actually lose all rights to park on the street for the next 48 hours? Or, as the old-timers would claim, until the snow melts?

We move cars and sweep streets, move cars and plow to the curb like every other city in northern latitudes that does snow removal.

Once an emergency ends first 24 hours is even side, next 24 is odd side. Space savers not allowed.

In Niagara Falls (NY), they leave the street sweeping schedule in place all year, and plow/scrape all the way to the curb during the winter. Sure, it doesn't help everyone immediately, but it's certainly better than saved spaces separated by ice mountains!

on PUBLIC streets are provided for the benefit of the PUBLIC, and are not to be reserved by anyone for their exclusive use.

So, you dug your car out. Good, now you can use it. Shouldn't entitle you to have that space when you get back.

Like waving a red cape at an angry bull!

Now excuse me while I grab my popcorn.

Citation please.
If you park in front of your own home, you’d get a ticket for not shoveling sidewalk (if path is too narrow). If you park in of someone else’s home and throw snow onto their shoveled sidewalk, chances are your vehicle will be covered in snow when you get back.