Gary C. reports this car was originally parked when there were snowbanks along Perkins Street at Jamaica Pond - and hasn't moved since:
Move over buddy! Despite the snow banks having receded to the curb, this lone duck still sits in the middle of the bike lane at Jamaica Pond. The city has noticed and placed several tickets on his windshield.
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Classic example of Car Privilege
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 9:52am
Just put some tickets on it while it endangers thousands of people.
Can't, like, tow it or anything! Some driver might get mad!
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By slowman4130
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 12:46pm
"endangers" thousands?
Yes
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 1:17pm
Thousands.
Every driver and cyclist who comes through there is endangered by this. They have to swerve around it.
How many people do you think
By Scratchie
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 1:35pm
How many people do you think drive down Perkins Street every day?
I noticed it as I rode my
By Chris M
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 1:57pm
I noticed it as I rode my bike down Perkins this morning. Cars are going 40mph and I already have to watch out for parked cars opening doors, now this guy.
I am on Perkins every morning
By cw in boston
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 5:19pm
and I would estimate that there are a few thousand cars a day, at least. The back-up on Goddard/Perkins to the Jamaicaway goes way back into Brookline, and the back-up on Parkman can go as far back as Kelley Circle on the Arborway. It is the shortcut for people in South Brookline and the further suburbs, and a main way of getting to the Longwood medical area.
No Perkins count
By Ari O
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 6:02pm
But the Pond-Chestnut rotary to the north of it sees 17000 cars per day. (via here)
Thanks
By cw in boston
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 6:48pm
for that link. Does the DCR have anything similar? Probably not.
That parking area
By Parkwayne
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 10:19am
Should have a 4 hour limit or something. It's used by people for long term parking which removes one convenient area for people to park when they want to enjoy the pond or go to kids soccer games.
The pond would be more
By Kinopio
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:11am
The pond would be more enjoyable if there weren't cars whizzing by 20 feet away. Whoever decided to put streets that close to the pond should be put in the stocks. If they are dead then we'll have some digging to do.
Right
By Parkwayne
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:32am
I always forget that you hate people who aren't rich enough to live north of Forrest Hills, like folks who want to enjoy a gem of the Emerald Necklace and don't live pond side. What a sad toxic little mix of Louise Litton and a Bernie Bro...
Look, car!
By Anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 12:13pm
Go fetch! Good boy!
parking
By Darryll J Fernald
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:51am
there's free parking all over JP, creates tons of traffic
likely bike lane
By Darryll J Fernald
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 10:33am
parking in bike lanes should be allowed
I mean if we're playing this game
By spin_o_rama
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 10:47am
Smashing car mirrors that block the bike lanes should be allowed
woah woah
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:20am
we got a tough guy hea
womp womp
By spin_o_rama
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 1:14pm
We got an Anon that doesn't understand subtext.
Hmmmm
By fungwah
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:05am
Hmmmm
Why didn't they just tow it?
By Oooff
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 10:40am
Why didn't they just tow it?
This happens all over the City
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 10:56am
There are cars in my street that have not moved since the last snowstorm. This is a form of space saving and is no different from placing s trash can in your parking spot.
Why hasn't it been towed?
By O-FISH-L
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:33am
Left front tire and part of the car are in the travel lane. Also 72 hours without moving is abandonment. Police can tow for any public safety reason. Time to get it out of there.
The entire vehicle is blocking an entire travel lane
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:40am
Those other pieces just happen to be encroaching on the motor-vehicles allowed lane.
Towing cars out of the bike lane??!?
By fungwah
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:44am
You must be new here. Heck, even giving it tickets is more than police usually do.
I think the police are being nice
By Gary C
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 11:55am
There were formally two additional cars that were parked like this on this stretch, long after the snow banks had receded. The others must have visited their cars and moved them, but this guy still hasn't been back. He was parked like everyone else....it's just that everyone else didn't just park it and forget it.
Being nice to the one person
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 1:29pm
Being nice to the one person at the expense of many people. That's not good.
Just wait until the next
By supgup
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 12:49pm
Just wait until the next plowable storm. That front end is gonna get whacked.
And yeah, it sucks that those partking spaces get used by long term parkers, rather than day visitors to the Pond. I suspect the car owners live in Brookline where they can't park on the street.
If I were in charge, I'd tow
By anon
Tue, 01/29/2019 - 2:22pm
If I were in charge, I'd tow the car into the adjacent legal parking space, and give them a $90 ticket for the standard cost of a tow. Problem solved.
Follow-up
By Gary C
Wed, 01/30/2019 - 8:52am
Not sure where it went, but the car is not there this morning.
Of course the most obvious question
By GoSoxGo
Wed, 01/30/2019 - 9:52am
(and one I think we know the answer to) is "Why wasn't the road plowed all the way to the curb to begin with, so no lanes were blocked by snowbanks?"
No snow emergency
By cw in boston
Wed, 01/30/2019 - 10:32am
so a lot of people park there overnight. I often see people walking up Chestnut St. from Brookline with shovels to get their cars out.
But when there is a snow
By anon
Wed, 01/30/2019 - 6:33pm
But when there is a snow emergency, do they bother to plow all the way to the curb?
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