A shocked South End resident cannot believe this sort of sign is now popping up on places like West Brookline Street:
This is a highly disturbing sign. South End Neighborhood Associations do not support space savers. Please have DPW begin removing these items.
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It's starting!
By JohnAKeith
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:39pm
First, shirt-sleeves, now this?!
Thank you Mr. Amory
By JohnCostello at Work
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:48pm
Great Lit. Ref. John A. Keith
If you don't support space savers
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:43pm
Grab a shovel and clear the remaining spaces on your block or STFU.
Or just remove as many space
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:47pm
Or just remove as many space savers as you can and throw them out, whether or not you are going to park there. Or vandalize cars that use space savers, since vandalism seems to be OK if you are trying to send a message in Boston. I don't have a car so the more vandalized cars the better.
But then ur face get
By CJ
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:13pm
But then ur face get vandalized too n its gotta be worse for ignorant lazy fuck coz I hve to goto jail..reason im so pissed coz I would never even think of takn someones spot..so douchey..I dont even have my spacesaver anymore..after other nite..everyone knos its mine..hve some FUCKING class!!!!!
do dey stil do skool in jale?
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:15pm
Let's hope so.
Oh how classic
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:20pm
I don't suppose you have looked up that last word in a dictionary, no?
i agree with cj
By bostnkid
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 9:00am
we should all hve some FUCKING class!!!!!
Bqhatevwr...
By CraigInDaVille
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 9:15am
n/t
If you don't support illegal claiming of public property
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:49pm
Get your own spot, get rid of your car, or STFU.
Who ? If u shovel a spot, why
By CJ
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:03pm
Who ? If u shovel a spot, why should some skumbag take it? Shovel ur own FUCKING spot..jus lazy ignorant fucks..almost got arrested other day for screaming n threatening to get FUCK outta my spot, guys says someone took his spot, so u take mine? Wheres fkn common courtesy??!!??
See there's this thing
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:12pm
called taxes, and we all pay them for the streets. The streets are public, and anyone can park there.
Please Send City Hall $200 Per Month
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:14pm
You are claiming public property as your private property. That is called theft, or it could be called illegal use.
Want a spot of your own? Buy one, or rent one at fair market rate or pay the public for your private appropriation of something that IS NOT YOURS.
Pay up. Oh, and go back to school and learn to write, please.
Hilarious!!
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 9:00pm
Love the "it's a public street" comments. Of course none of you probably live in neighborhoods where the proud Bostonian tradition of keying your BMW for taking a space someone shoveled out still exists. I'm also sure none of you have the balls to try it.
Argue about the legal and ethical issues involved, but on the street no one gives two shits about the opinions of U-Hubbers.
The era of web cams, youtube, etc.
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 9:15pm
You might consider that you are being set up if you continue to assume that you have some special rights to pubic property that you don't have - and some "right" to do things that could get you a repair bill that won't be for your car.
Ahh, Swirly
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 10:03pm
Swirly who sleeps peacefully in her little hamlet in Medford, safe in the knowledge that her little cherubs have shoveled out the driveway of her little piece of the American dream.
I'll bet money you didn't grow up in a neighborhood where your old man would unleash a tirade of obscenities like the old man in " A Christmas Story" if he came home from a long day in the cab to find someone in the spot he had saved after making us shovel it out.
Now my old man would just grumble and yell at us for not looking out for the space. He was not the retaliatory type, as he didn't want anyone fucking with his cab. Everyone else in the neighborhood would key the cars, slash the tires, sugar in the gas tank, etc.
So when you posit the ridiculous idea that a shitty web cam that is probably useless on a poorly lit street at night might deter someone from seeking revenge for their space being taken, it shows me that while you may pontificate on a number of subjects in these hallowed halls that you have a working knowledge of, clearly the ways of the street are foreign to you.
And my ancestors ran around and clubbed wildebeests
By eeka
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 10:32pm
What's your point?
Your ancestors are dead
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 10:49pm
Space savers are alive and well. That's the point.
Show some compassion to the space savers!!
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 11:01pm
They're presenting anti-social behavior. Everyone, please engage them and tell them how inappropriate their behavior is.
Compassion works! They'll get more volatile and aggressive but try to hug it out with them.
You're breaking thru.
What the hell...
By Boston_res
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:55am
You don't park your business car in a garage somewhere? I've seen the garages in the Fenway area stuffed with taxis. I thought they all went there to sleep during their off time.
He probably parks them on the street
By Swirlygrrl at Work
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:05am
In other words, grifting off the taxpayer with those commercial plates.
You point?
By Swirlygrrl at Work
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:02am
In the neighborhood I grew up in, there would be few words exchanged, but a couple of discharges from a shotgun.
Then again, I grew up in some of the same drug-infested shithole trailer parks that Tanya Harding did.
That doesn't make the behavior legal or acceptable.
I also considered my options when buying a home and got one with a driveway because I wanted a place that I OWNED to put my vehicle. It really isn't rocket science. Funny how Arlington requires off-street parking - no driveway, no car.
Boston has trailer parks?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:35am
Do they have space savers in trailer parks? I can't really see the need. Point being you seem to have never had to deal with the frustration of engaging in back breaking snow removal only to see someone else take the space you shoveled out on Walford Way.
Then of course you feel you can make value judgements on people who live in those situations without showing me that you ever had to deal with the space saver issue yourself.
And on a related note, I'm watching the Ride try to get up my street to pick up a special needs person on my block. They can't do it. Why?
It's due to the fact that everyday since I since I moved to Belmont, people with town stickers from places like Lincoln and Newburyport(!) park their cars on my street so they can walk to the #72 bus stop and avoid paying parking fees in Cambridge or Boston. In the winter it doesn't matter to them that they might prevent large vehicles from getting up my street due to the fact that the usual parking spaces are now snow covered and their cars stick out. So what, they seem to say, I still get to go home to my plowed or snow blown driveway after I'm done fucking up a whole street so I can save a few bucks.
Boston has a trailer park, yes
By adamg
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:41am
1515 VFW Parkway, just south of Spring Street, on the banks of the Charles.
Ol' Man Clair built it originally, next to his car dealerships on what was then Rte. 1, then decided to expand the dealerships and kick all the residents out, only they didn't want to go, sparking a decade+ battle that, with the help of state Sen. Marian Walsh, they won. Clair sold them the deed and now it's some sort of trailer-park co-op.
It's actually quite nice
By Nancy
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:46am
from what I hear. It's right on the Charles River and it's set back from Route 1 so they're not that bothered by the traffic. I've never driven into it but it looks like it has a lot of trees and green space.
Had a Car in Kenmore Square for 3 years
By Swirlygrrl at Work
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:49am
Never had a problem because I had a spot for it because I was the grocery getter for a 30-person cooperative for low income MIT students.
Wouldn't have gotten a car otherwise because I would not have had a place to put it. Even as an 18-year old, I could get that much.
You have two choices: you can have your own spot, or you can get a sticker and go fish. If you chose the latter, you don't get rights to bitch that you don't get the privileges of the former.
So......no
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 12:21pm
You've never lived on a street that space saving was the norm, correct?
There were resident stickers
By Swirlygrrl at Work
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 12:30pm
Most of them ended up at the metered spots because there were too many of them.
I didn't want to have to play that game, so I didn't. Simple.
If you want the advantages of owning a spot, own one (or rent one). I don't understand why you don't get that, and seem to hate on me because I do get that AND have made appropriate choices.
Oh, Swirly, I couldn't hate on you! It's Valentine's Day!
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 5:31pm
You just don't relate to my mindset on this issue because you didn't grow up in a situation where it was the norm. It's why I don't make comments on parenting teenagers because I don't have any.
Besides, it's only for a couple of months of the year!
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Screw the norm
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 6:57pm
It used to be the norm to ban black people from white people's restaurants, too.
You could change your mindset if you put a little effort into understanding that the world we inhabit is not the same world in which the space-saving habit got started. There aren't enough spaces to go around, so hogging one with a chair while you're not using it is no longer acceptable.
Good luck with that!
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 7:20pm
And I hope your insurance covers keying and slashed tires!
Why would it matter in the
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:25am
Why would it matter in the least whether someone has lived where is space-saving is the norm? You don't own the spot because you shoveled your own car out of it. Your only reward for shoveling is that you get to drive away. The person that takes your coveted spot probably also dug his car out. So, tough shit, dude. Don't want to lose your spot? Don't drive.
What's this "frustration" you speak of?
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:52am
I seriously don't get it.
I shoveled out my car over the weekend. I drove it on Monday afternoon. Of course there was another car in the space when I got back -- I'm sure it arrived 10 minutes after I left. I drove around and found another space. If I had arrived home at 6PM when no spaces are available, I would have put my car in a garage, just as I do in the summer when there's no snow.
Why would you expect me to be frustrated and angry?
There's this (to me) utterly bizarre sense of entitlement ... the frustration and anger seems to stem from the belief that you are somehow entitled to the space just because you dug it out. Why do people have that idea?
#72 bus?
By Sarcastic Sam
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 3:21pm
That route doesn't quite go to the Belmont town line does it? Those people from parking on your street from Lincoln would have to walk a good .... 6 or 8 blocks ? At least they're getting some exercise.
Yes, it goes from Waverly Square, Belmont
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 5:04pm
to Harvard Square. I live within walking distance of the Waverley Square stop. Ans people think the space savers have a sense of entitlement...
MBTA.com says that's the 73....
By Sarcastic Sam
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 5:24pm
....which is nitpicky on my part but I'm just trying to picture the area.
If it's Waverley Sq., those out of towners might also be using your street as a parking lot for the commuter rail station.
Apologies....
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 5:43pm
To quote Ed McMahon..."You are correct, sir! Hi-yooooo!"
HA!
By Boston_res
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 11:21pm
She said pubic.
You still don't get it.
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:00pm
Clear what spaces, Will?
There are 1200 street spaces in my neighborhood, and 6000 cars with resident stickers.
Are you seriously proposing that, post storm, the street spaces should be reserved for the exclusive use of the 1200 cars that happened to be in them on the night of the storm, and that the owners of the 4800 cars can go pound sand?
When do you propose that the owners of those 4800 cars should be allowed to park on the street again?
The Crux of the Issue
By WhatTheBins
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:31pm
I agree with you, anon.
I think the disagreement between supporters of public use and supports of space savers is rooted in the overall availability of parking in each neighborhood (and even more locally, blocks within neighborhoods).
In the parts of Boston where supply of parking spots generally outweighs demand, shoveling a spot and claiming the space for the 48 hours after a parking emergency has been lifted is generally acceptable. The true reason that someone "steals" a saved spot may be that they are too lazy to shovel the snowy spot a few spots up the street.
In the parts of Boston where demand frequently outweighs supply, the South End in this case, shoveling a spot does not give the shoveler the right to reserve the space when not in use.
Stupid. Shoveling snow does
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:19am
Stupid. Shoveling snow does not impart ownership. It only enables a person to move his car. Don't want to lose the spot? Don't drive.
Park a beater there, get a web cam, and sue
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:48pm
This is also probably yet another report from the resident Pembroke street busybody who goes apoplectic over any car they *don't* think is a resident, when at least two of them have been https://mayors24.cityofboston.gov/reports/4e209fcc...
hah, reminds me of the west
By slowman4130
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:00pm
hah, reminds me of the west broadway (southie) busybody who reports cars that are parked facing the wrong direction on 2-way streets.
It's not me, but
By nmx
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:21pm
Parking facing the wrong direction poses a safety issue.
?
By nightmoves
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:02pm
How do these cars with out of state tags get resident stickers? There used to be one on Jersey Street from Illinois.
Seriously, I was told by city
By BrettW
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:11pm
Seriously, I was told by city hall that I had to transfer everything over if I wanted to park in Boston, meaning, I had to change everything over before I actually moved here, making multiple trips from NY to get a parking permit so I could park here the night I moved.
Hmm
By nightmoves
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:25pm
The only thing I could think of is an exception for people in the Armed Services.
Or you could do like many
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:28am
Or you could do like many others coming from out of state do and pick a local auto insurance agency that will register your car here for you.
I love..
By cybah
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 2:57pm
I love how the post says "The SE Neighborhood Association does not support space savers"
Um hello. Who cares? The City of Boston does. You've been overruled.
Seriously though.. who cares, once again these neighborhood associations continue to suck.
(Edit: Correcting my english)
Does the Mayor even have that authority?
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:11pm
I know that the Mayor has instructed City employees to wait 48 hours after a storm before enforcing the law by removing space-savers, but, politics aside, does he have the legal authority to grant exclusive use of public property (the street) to private individuals (whoever put a chair out there)? Generally, when public property is going to be sold, or given away, or leased out, there needs to be a public process, not just fiat by the mayor.
I think so
By cybah
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:28pm
I think so.. if the mayors office can rent/lease space for events (i.e. Gov't Center Plaza). He must have authority.
I should also say that a few years ago they TRIED to stop the space saver thing and failed because people complained. So now the policy is 48 hours.
Sometimes ya gotta just suck it up and deal with it.
And by they you mean Menino
By Dignan
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 9:10pm
And by they you mean Menino tried to stop it.
I would say that sometimes
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:30am
I would say that sometimes those poor shovelers who lose their precious parking spots just have to deal with it. Don't want to lose a spot? Don't drive.
Pft, that's not really that
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:12pm
Pft, that's not really that disturbing
Meanwhile, in Brighton ...
By adamg
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:47pm
Complaint:
Answer:
Discretion
By Steve Brady
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:32pm
Right. People keep saying that space saving is legal because the mayor said so. What he said was they wouldn't enforce the law in some instances due to practical concerns (i.e. savages attacking garbage collectors). That's not legalization, it's selective enforcement.
Big misunderstanding of the law
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 6:23pm
There is no law that says you have a right to keep the space you shoveled. It is perfectly legal to move a "space saver" someone has placed in a shoveled spot. The cars are not illegally parked.
What the current understanding means is that the normal laws against littering and putting pieces of junk in the street are temporarily suspended after a snowstorm, and for forty-eight hours after a snowstorm these items will not be thrown into a trash truck or result in fines against those who put them in a public street. That is all.
They are legal space savers in the sense that it is legal to place them in the street. They are not legal space savers in the sense that they do not give you legal exclusive use of the space they mark.
Not parking in a space someone has marked in this fashion is simply a courtesy extended to one's neighbors - much like shoveling their walk, or bringing over misdelivered mail. Nobody is under any legal obligation whatsoever to do it, but being nice to one's neighbors is a good idea.
Nitpicking
By eeka
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 10:34pm
Actually, it's a federal offense to do anything with misdelivered mail other than give it to the right person or put it in an outgoing mailbox. ;-)
But otherwise you're totally right.
No nits here
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 5:30am
As you say, Eeka, there are two perfectly legal things you can do with the mail of your neighbor that ends up at your house. My point is that one is the nice thing, and one is less nice.
Nice: walk over and give your mail to your neighbor.
Not as nice: write NOT AT THIS ADDRESS on the mail and put it back in the mailbox.
Both responses are totally legal. But whereas the former will result in your neighbor getting his mail in an expeditious fashion, the latter will not. The first is the neighborly thing to do.
Architect
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 3:56pm
You can tell by the writing it's either an Architect or Interior Designer.
and they clearly inflicted fear in the hearts of their neighbors
By Sarcastic Sam
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 5:06pm
....seeing how the sign was chucked off to the side.
Screw what the law says. Its
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:05pm
Screw what the law says. Its just wrong to take someone else's space. If YOU put in that work to shovel a spot out and you put something there to save it then it should be YOURS. People are just lazy fucks and they dont want to put in the work. Personally, I'd kick your mirror off or flatten multiple tires so you'd need a flatbed to get out of it. Say what you will, but people are pricks. There are even people with driveways who are complaining about other people parking on their street even though they cleared it themselves.
You didn't shovel out "a
By tc101
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:17pm
You didn't shovel out "a spot", you shoveled out "your car".
You only own one of those things.
Just because you put in some physical labor into something doesn't mean you're owed something.
Aren't cars supposed to be off Boston streets during a storm?
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 5:47pm
I assumed people were shoveling an empty spot then saving it while they got their cars from whatever lot they parked in during the storm. Is that not true? I don't own a car so this is not an issue for me.
Speaking as a completely
By Bleba
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:19pm
Speaking as a completely UNlazy person who shoveled like a maniac for two days, I do not consider it MY spot. Everyone on my street was shoveling. Who the hell cares which spot I park in when I get home? I think space savers are a thing of the devil. Even if it means I sometimes have to be inconvenienced and walk a bit to get from my car to my place. The one time I tried to go to the dark side and use a space saver it was gone when I got home. So it's just pointless anyway.
AMEN..FUCK law..comes down to
By CJ
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:25pm
AMEN..FUCK law..comes down to lazy ignorant ppl, basically ppl COMMON FUCKING COURTESY!!!!!!!!!! how do u argue that?an to person who said u only own car n not spot..clearly DICKHEAD ALE..either these pussies lost there spot or there not going through it..coz im supposed to believe u wouldn't care if someone took ur spot? Again either pussy or ignorant classless D-BAG
Again, CJ, not
By Kathode
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 7:50pm
"Your" spot. It's a public street. And please learn to spell.
Save Up!
By Michael
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 11:41pm
And someday you can live in a place with your very own driveway!
Just lay out the rule for us idiots, please.
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 2:42am
As has been asked many times of you space-savers, please just explain the rule for us idiots.
There are 6000 resident stickers in my neighborhood. There are 1200 street spaces.
When, according to your logic, do the owners of the 4800 cars that weren't in a street space the night before the storm, and therefore had no space to shovel out, have a moral right to park on a public street again?
This can only go so far...
By anon
Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:25pm
Woah woah woah- why threats of vandalization? Whatever happened to good ol' passive aggressive notes left on the windsheild?
It's been 4 days since the storm ended. How long does the "I shoveled this so therefore it's mine" argument last? I shoveled out my car (which took about 3 hours), so in March can I still say, "I put in all this work a month ago...therefore it's mine"?
Also, let's be honest, half the space savers I've seen are in spots that were barely cleared. Doesn't count if you just kicked around the snow near the driver's side door and drove over the rest.
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