It's official: We suck. Boston Police report seven cases of post-blizzard parking-space vandalism across the city this week.
In most of the cases, tires were slashed. In one case, a window was smashed. In another, a plastic sawhorse was heaved at a car door. Two examples:
About 10:49AM, on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, officers from District D-14 (Brighton) responded to a radio call involving vandalism on Litchfield Street. On arrival, the victim told officers someone slashed one of her tires. Officers observed the victim’s car to be parked legally in a shoveled out spot in the area of 10 Litchfield Street. Victim stated that there were items placed in the empty parking space in an effort to “save” the spot which the victim says she moved prior to parking.
About 9:30AM, on February 12, 2013, officers from District A-7 (East Boston) responded to 163 Byron Street for a vandalism report. On arrival, the victim told officers that on Monday, February 11, 2013, he moved a chair from a parking space and then parked his car in the empty spot. When he returned to his car the next day, he discovered two flat/slashed tires on his car.
Incidents were reported in Dorchester, East Boston, Brighton, Charlestown and Roxbury, police say.
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So
By anon²
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 7:25pm
Who runs this city, the mayor or a bunch of thugs?
Is there a difference?
By Lecil
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 7:41pm
The problem here is that the Mayor is encouraging these thugs. With his official unofficial stance -- that space savers are okay for 48 hours after (this bit keeps changing; end of the snow storm? End of the snow emergency?), he gives the okay for this sort of thuggery. Those which damaged cars should forward their repair bills directly to his office.
wah wah
By This Guy
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 7:48pm
wah wah
At this point,
By anon
Sun, 02/17/2013 - 7:39am
It's a matter of the inmates running the asylum! It's crazy!
Ahem.....(cough)
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 8:15pm
Sigh......
Too bad, so sad. They should
By Chelsea
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 8:20pm
Too bad, so sad. They should know better.
Blame the victim much?
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 8:51pm
If you are walking home late at night and you get mugged and stabbed, the blame lies 100% with the thug and 0% with you. If people try to say, "well, you should have known better, you shouldn't be out at night, you shouldn't be living in the city, you shouldn't be walking through that neighborhood..." the proper response is to tell them to eff off.
The same is true for the parking space savers. If we let the threat of violence run the public off its own streets, that's a huge mistake.
lol, "getting your tires
By Chelsea
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 9:40pm
lol, "getting your tires slashed because you pissed off people, took advantage of someone else's backbreaking hard work with no compensation, and violated a long-held and completely legal community standard" is just like getting mugged.
Also, only seven incidents reported to BPD? I bet a lot more people got their tires slashed and knew they deserved it, so they didn't report it, and even more people didn't get their tires slashed, and even more people didn't even bother parking in a saved space anyway because they are NOT A DICK.
Legal Community Standard?
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:22am
Where do you get your legal advice from?
lol, "getting your tires
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:52am
Yeah, it's just like getting your skull cracked with a baseball bat because you wore the wrong color shirt in the wrong neighborhood, walked down the wrong block when you are of the wrong race, or dared to try to sell cheese to a pizzeria that was someone else's customer.
In all cases, there will be some asshole defending the thugs and blaming the victim, saying "that's what happens when you poach on someone else's turf."
Amen!
By anon
Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:08pm
Amen!
It's fucking shoveling!
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 3:26pm
It's fucking shoveling! Nothing about shoveling snow is backbreaking. If you're injuring yourself, you're doing it wrong. If you worried about a heart attack while shoveling, tough shit. Get your fat fucking ass off the couch once in a while and exercise. Just because you uncovered your car so that you can drive away does not mean that you own the patch of pavement it was parked over. Get a fucking life, man.
You clearly weren't here for
By Noni
Sat, 02/16/2013 - 10:19pm
You clearly weren't here for that snowstorm, so you shouldn't be talking. People spent a good 2-3 hours digging their cars out of the spot, so they can make it to work, for whichever businesses actually opened and forced their employees to go to work. And when they come back some other jerk parked in the spot they spent hours clearing, with a placeholder, then that jerk is going to get their car vandalized. This doesn't mean I support vandalism in any way, but if I spent hours to get my car out of its parking spot and someone else parks there, even though I leave an obvious placeholder, then I'm going to cover their car in snow so they can dig themselves out like I had to, and then when they leave I'm going to take their spot, just so they can see how it feels to do all this work and someone else not obey "common courtesy rules".
Reasoning
By anon²
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:01pm
with sociopaths and narcissists is a lost cause.
It's why the city needs to come down hard on this childish bullshit, before it escalates even more. Space saving used to be a thing some people in Southie did. But it's exploded since Mumbles backtracking, and has spread throughout the city as the media find it newsworthy in a sort of sideshow sort of appeal.
People are claiming spots for weeks, claiming spots in the summer, and generally it's a race to the bottom with everyone fearing retaliation and fearing not having a place to park.
Game theory is taking over instead of the law.
Really?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:27pm
I grew up in Revere and that's where I first observed this phenomenon. I've also seen it in towns from Haverhill to New Bedford.
So saying that it only occurs in Southie is as ill informed and ridiculous as painting the people who place space savers as "sociopaths and narcissists".
If you'd like, I can introduce you to some real sociopaths. Maybe we can see if they'd like to submit themselves to your scintillating psychiatric insight.
Also, no one space saves in the summer. You'd get laughed at.
Also, no one space saves in
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:19pm
There were a few complaints on Citizen Connect last summer and autumn about neighbors putting out space savers, e.g. traffic cones. On at least a couple of occasions the mayor's office responded that they'd resolved the complaint by picking up the cones. For what it's worth I don't think any of the complaints were from Southie; I remember ones specifically from Dorchester and Jamaica Plain.
When I lived in Oak Square 15
By anon wd
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:53pm
When I lived in Oak Square 15 years ago- I had a neighbor that space-saved year-round- had plywood cut-out roughly the size of his car that was chained to pole in front of house
You wanna bet?
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:47pm
"Also, no one space saves in the summer. You'd get laughed at."
You obviously don't live where I do in East Boston. People, mostly old time residents, put these things out all year round. They do it simply as a matter of course as part of their daily routine. They do not feel they are doing anything wrong and nothing will disuade them from thinking they are absolutely justified in doing what they are doing.
Wow, I had no idea...
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:08am
that people still do that in the summer. Now that's just wrong!
Yup
By anon²
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:51am
It’s getting worse and is a growing trend, ever since the Mayor backtracked. And no, I’m not ignorant that Southie wasn’t the only place on earth doing this; but are you ignorant at just how much more it’s happing now, and how bad things have escalated because of the vacuum Meninio created? It was one thing when the city just looked the other way and dealt with it on a case by case basis, but backtracking has all but legitimized it and the anti-social behavior behind it.
Just wait, someone is going to get stabbed, curbed stomped, or shot one of these winters over a flipping parking space. And the city, and thus us, will probably be on the hook against a liability claim, as the politicians scramble to finally end this practice.
Not a good scenario, imho!
By anon
Sun, 02/17/2013 - 7:42am
When the below-quoted scenario happens,
then it'll be way too late!
Where's your logic?
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:35am
Why is it OK in the winter to protect the half hour you put into shoveling out a space by saving it, while it is not OK in the summer to protect the half hour you put into driving around and finding a space by saving it?
I'm just not following your sense that one of them is morally OK and the other is wrong.
It's wrong and childish and
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 3:28pm
It's wrong and childish and selfish, no matter the time of year.
Yup, seen it in JP, too
By merlinmurph
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 8:36am
It takes balls to do it in non-winter months, but it's done. I've seen it done by long-time residents, and neighbors just shake their head and avoid any contention, which just may be the best thing to do.
Different standards for different times
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:22pm
In Revere when you were growing up, what was the ratio of cars to available spaces? In a lot of Boston today, it's now over 5:1.
In Revere, when you were growing up, after a storm, was there such a thing as an "empty" space (i.e. a space that had no car in it, and that could be yours for the taking if you were willing to shovel it out?) In a lot of Boston today, there isn't.
In Revere, when you were growing up, were parking spaces so scarce that buying one cost 2 years' of a decent professional salary? In parts of Boston today, they are.
Could you allow for the possibility that saving a space in Revere when you were growing up was perfectly reasonable, that taking a space someone else had shoveled out was blatantly selfish because there were others to be had just for shoveling, but that none of that holds today in much of Boston?
It's always important to re-examine traditions and see if the conditions under which they developed still hold. Often times the rules need to be changed.
Yeah, it's a drag that I can't graze sheep for free on Boston Common or go duck hunting on the banks of the Charles any more, either.
Great post!
By bosguy22
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:38pm
Say you lived on a street in south boston with say 40 spots and on a bright summer day 20 cars parked on that street. When winter comes and those 20 cars still park on that street...and there's a big winter storm, if you shoveled your car out, OF COURSE you'd hope your neighbors respected the fact that you did the shoveling and didn't park in your spot when you left. Then it's just a matter of putting in the effort and shoveling your own space. The problem is, when there are 20 spots on a street, and 80 cars looking for spots. Just because you shoveled it doesn't mean you own it for a week.
You're escalating some situations yourself, anon2
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 10:16pm
By anonymously removing savers you're putting ramdom strangers into possible contact with people you consider sociopaths.
All to make a point?
You're almost as kooky as the space savers.
Douche move randomly removing spacers
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:03pm
I originally responded to another thread where some skylarking non-townie thought it was constructive or amusing to randomly remove space-savers.
It' not. There are repercussions. As we now see. Put your money (and your car) where your mouth is and only remove a saver for a spot you park in yourself.
Don't set up some true innocent to get their car vandalized just
because you're on some jihad against space-saving.
I'll find my own spot and let the psychos keep "theirs" for a few more days.
Start a petition or something if you want to change things, dick.
Yeah
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:24pm
How dare anyone have guests during the winter! No fraternisation until the snow melts. Screw friends and tell Granny to suck it.
Seriously, the Mayor has to teach people that no one owns a public street.
Yeah, put Granny in some psycho's crosshairs
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 4:54pm
Real bright. Do you look for dates for her at the prison release half-way house.
You're missing the point: Space-saving is douchey. Vandalism is criminal. We agree.
BUT where I disagree with many on this post is with the vigilantes who will rem,ove a saver anonymously and then let some sap or, for the love of Godm, their own grandmother park in that spot.
You're not doing anyone any favors. And if I found out some dick with a hardon for space-savers set me up to be vandalized by another dick I'd have plenty of anger to go around.
We all get it. Move a spot and park and you make a statement and maybe take a chance.
Shouldn't put unsuspecting people into the mix though. Let them move their own spots and fight their own battles. They shouldn't have to fight your battles (maybe literally) or have their car take the abuse meant for your car.
This isn't baling the victim. It's finding an accesory to the main culprit, the spacesaver.
Criminal move
By anon²
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:33am
Last time I checked destruction of private property and vandalism is criminal. Sorry that I don’t feel the need to defend shitheads that need to be locked up for their criminal behavior. Especially ones that are now complaining that us car-less people that are moving their space savers and making them vandalize innocent people. What a load of malarkey.
Space saving is not a law.
Putting trash or dumping objects in the road is illegal.
Destroying or vandalizing others property is illegal.
People doing so need to be arrested and charged as the douches they are.
No criminal move until AFTER the douche move
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 10:04pm
In the circumstances we're talking about.
This is really simple.
First, I've never defended space savers and certainly not vandals.
Now let's look at two scenarios, both with an unsuspecting driver looking for a spot:
1. You, anon2, and your ilk choose to march on City Hall, or start a petition, or knock on the space savers door to tell him how you feel. You do anything and maybe everything about this issue you feel so strongly about EXCEPT anonymously remove a saver and leave a spot open that you're not using.
Unsuspecting driver then makes HIS OWN informed decision on where to park and whether to risk interaction with scumbags with propensities for violence and vandalism.
2. You and your kind randomly and anonymously remove savers and expose untold people to unknown acts by people we all agree are true shitbags.
And you don't see a problem with that. I do.
It's as basic as the golden rule. I don't want to come find my car vandalized and possible have an altercation with some freak with serious issues. I would certainly never put someone else in that position.Not to make a point, that's for sure.
¿Comprende?
Not blaming the victim, not defending the asshole. Finding fault with a specific behavior by YOU, not the victim or the perp.
How about this easy fix:
By anon
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 8:41pm
Have garbage crews remove all items left in the street on their normal runs. Not only will this discourage leaving shit, but it also gives the benefit of the doubt to people who want to legally park. Fuck space saving, fuck vandalism.
At the same time, shovel out a goddamn spot ya filthy animals.
Rozzie's #1
By gradontripp
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 8:48pm
Yet another reason why Roslindale's the best neighborhood in the city.
I see these
By willisan
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:17pm
All over Rosi
The only people that have
By gradontripp
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:22am
The only people that have spot savers on my block are WT townies that are known to slash tires, and use the traffic cones and whatnot year-round. Luckily, there's more than enough on- and off-street parking for the rest of the neighborhood.
Here's the problem.
By bosguy22
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:34am
You remove the space saver and park there because you're only going to be an hour or so...but you don't put it back. I drive down MY street looking for a space (because I was out of town during the storm, I don't have a "saved spot"). I see an open spot and park my car there. Some meathead comes out and sees my car in HIS spot and thinks I'm the one that moved the space saver....and slashes my tires.
Who is at fault? How is this avoided?
the Meathead
By anon²
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:40am
he needs to be arrested and charged with destruction of property / vandalism.
He's commiting a crime. No one else invloved was.
this isn't rocket science people.
proof?
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:15pm
You basically need to video tape them doing it to get them arrested. My neighbors vandalized my car in the summer for parking in front of their house. There's really nothing BPD can do unless you have proof.
Being a busybody asshole isn't always a crime
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 10:55pm
Why the need to randomly remove space savers and put other people's cars in danger of vandalism?
You've said someone will eventually get seriously hurt over this but you're doing absolutely nothing constructive.
You're just fanning the flames and causing trouble.
Why don't you just mind your own business?
(And no, I don't space save and don't condone it in anyway.)
WT Townie??
By Rostonian
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 1:35pm
Gradontripp,
Easy with the "WT Townie" comments. It is these long-term residents that have helped keep Rozzie a nice place to live for so long. And I can guarantee that if you ever needed a neighbor to lend a hand in a jam, these "townies" would be the first to help you out. (over some new Roslindale Village resident renter/hipster). People in the city need to realize that a shoveled spot (being held with a space saver) is off limits - for a few days. If you have the stones to actually move someone's space saver (within a few days of a snowstorm)you should expect a few unkind words etc. (although I strongly disagree with the vandalism of cars etc.)
"WT TOWNIES"? - Typical comment from a new resident. Newsflash Gradontrip, Rozzie was a nice neighborhood (filled with good people)long before the restaurants and farmers market started popping up - although the food and farmers market have only enhanced our neighborhood and made it better.
Just funny because would you be so quick to toss around a racial comment in regard other parts of our community? Why don't you head down to Archdale, toss around some racial nicknames and lecture the people about the rise in crime in the area...see how that goes for you.
Kidding aside, don't dis you neighbors, or your neighborhood. After all, isnt it this very "diversity" that we all love so much?
Take care.
"People in the city need to
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 3:32pm
"People in the city need to realize that a shoveled spot (being held with a space saver) is off limits - for a few days."
Absolutely not. No one owns a parking spot on the street. Just because you had to move snow off and from around your car doesn't make it your spot. It just means that you did the work that enables you to drive away. That's it, that's all. It's immature and selfish to think that the space magically becomes yours.
OK Mike, when you live in the
By Rostonian
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 4:40pm
OK Mike, when you live in the city for a few years you might see things a little differently. ("immature and selfish"? relax)
No, Mike's right
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 5:21pm
and I've lived in the city for 50 years.
Get over yourself. Street spaces are for anyone to use. I shovel mine, I pull out, and someone else pulls in. That's the way street parking works; if you stop to think of it for a second, it's the only way it could possibly work; the only way to share when there are more cars than spaces is for someone else to use yours while you're driving around.
I suppose 'white trash' to you
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 2:24pm
is anyone with a 'local' accent and didn't move to the city for college, a job, and out of a boring small town or suburb?
One day someone is going to
By J
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 9:33pm
One day someone is going to get shot, and I hope the victims family presses charges against Menino for encouraging this.
We Don't Suck
By Dani B.
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 9:45pm
Mayor Menino sucks. He sanctions this riddiculous system of space savers and ever since he's sanctioned it's spread from southie to pretty much every other Boston neighborhood. This is ridiculous and we need a mayor who isn't going to let marshal law run parking.
This has NOTHING to do with Tommy
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 8:34am
This has been tradition for a LONG,LONG time,Dani.
This has EVERYTHING to do with Tommy
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:26pm
He could have educated people -- used his leadership position to point out that a lot of traditions need to change when conditions change. You can't graze sheep on Boston Common any more, because the city has 750,000 residents and not 5,000, and there just isn't enough Boston Common to go around. You can't hoard parking spaces any more, because the city has the same number of parking spaces but ten times as many cars as it did back when the tradition got started, so you need to share.
But he didn't. He caved in to the unthinking and gave official sanction to a practice that is blatantly not in the community's best interest.
Dear Dani,
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:14am
1). Space saving is not new. They were doing it in JP when I moved here 28 years ago.
2). What is this marshal law garbage? Are you saying the military is now in charge of parking in the city?
3). The Mayor does not suck.
4). Learn to spell.
5). You're a dumbbell.
re "Learn to spell." Indeed.
By Sarcastic Sam
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 4:15pm
The term is spelled "martial law." You're welcome.
Key word being......?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 9:58pm
From CBS Boston's web site:
The key word
By eeka
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:33pm
This puts the "BS" in CBS.
snow saving press coverage
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:05am
With all the press on this subject, one would think there is no other violence in the city, and no more important news stories.
"hours" The keyword is hours.
By MikeA
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 3:35pm
"hours" The keyword is hours. That's bullshit. No one spends hours digging out his car unless he's doing it with a teaspoon.
I'm with Dvdoff on
By PeterGriffith5
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 1:07am
I'm with Dvdoff on this.
Place savers go back decades.
Personally I'm not in the place saver or tire slashing camp, but it's shall we say disheartening to spend a few hours cleaning up a space and have some hotshot slide right in to benefit from your work.
If your the kind of person who is always out shoveling after each storm, you can see who is also out there, and who is not.
I understand some folks being really frustrated and taking some action to discourage such reaping of someone's else's labor. In fact If I was on a jury, I would vote to acquit.
And was no work involved in
By J
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 1:28am
And was no work involved in digging out the other car that swoops in? Or was there spot cleaned by magic?
No guarantee they shoveled
By R Hookup
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 8:30am
They could have been parked in a garage for the duration of the storm.
They did you a favor then
By Swirlygrrl at Work
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:00am
They paid a lot of money and left spots open for people who didn't pay a lot of money.
How did they leave a spot
By Finn
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:29pm
How did they leave a spot open by not being there? We're talking about during a snowstorm - if their car was not there, the spot fills with snow - and once it does, it will soon fill with snow from adjacent spaces being dug out. If anything, parking in a garage during the storm and then coming back to claim a space makes matters worse - it's one more car that seemingly comes out of the blue after the storm that expects to have a space waiting for it when it comes back! At least keep your car there during the storm and shovel out like everyone else, so at least someone will know you worked for it.
It's not disheartening at all
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 11:41am
I dig out my car after a snowstorm. What I get for my trouble is the use of my car. I drive off, someone parks in the space I left behind, probably within 15 minutes. I don't find that disheartening in the slightest, because I don't have the foolish notion that digging out my car entitles me to anything other than getting my car back.
I am the kind of person who is always out there shoveling after a storm. I clear my sidewalk promptly. I go up the block and dig out the fire hydrant. And I clean my elderly neighbor's walk and steps.
I have nothing but contempt for someone who, in my shoes, would think he's somehow entitled to personal private use of a public parking space.
Wait, the victim acknowledges the space saving system?
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 3:52am
I'm not Johnny victim blamer, but if the cops don't see it, it's not a crime (at least at this level of crime.) Guess what, lady, you won the parking battle, but you lost the war. Whether you believe you're right or wrong, the real consequence is that your tires are slashed. I'm assuming the act is not on videotape, so you have no recourse, and your tires are still slashed.
Again, "City Shoveling Hour." Let your neighbors see you contributing to the cause of clearing snow to maximize on-street parking. There are only so many cops. I got my car broken into, and the cops told me straight up (but politely) that they would not assign a detective to look into recovery of my stolen items. At some point, we, the laypeople, are the police. Street parking after snowstorms is clearly one of those points.
Will
By anon²
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:45am
mind telling me where you park your car?
Maybe I don't like the color. Should be reason enough for me to do what I'm planning, no?
After all, it's not a crime if no one sees it.
Where I park my car
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 4:00pm
Not on a city street. I don't even have a dog in this fight.
To people, especially those not from this area:
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 8:31am
it is rude by the standards of our local culture to park your vehicle in a spot you didn't shovel. It's a simple matter of respect. Many areas of Boston and surrounding cities and towns have as you've probably noticed limited on-street parking.
Now technically yes, it's a 'public' space, and yes, you can park where ever you damn well feel like [provided you have a resident parking sticker in some neighborhoods]...but, reality is it's not kosher in these parts. An analogy: yes, we have freedom of speech in America, and yes you can say whatever you want to someone's face, or on the common, even hold a sign listing your likes and dislikes...but, be prepared for people to be pissed off at you and to let you know they're pissed off, maybe even assault you. There are consequences to actions, regardless of the fact something may be your 'right'. Mature adults understand this.
And what's this CONSTANT reference to 'Southie'? I grew up mostly in JP, Allston and Somerville, and that's how we rolled,too. I also was born and lived in NYC, and we did the same thing there.
Carry a shovel in you vehicle [you should have some sand/salt,too] and shovel out your own damn space, preferably in front of your own damn home/building. Then mark your territory. I promise, I won't steal your space.
Why the Southie references?
By adamg
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:03am
Because only Southie threatened insurrection when the mayor announced a crackdown on space savers a few years ago.
NYC?
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 9:51am
No, we don't do this shit, you'd be laughed out of town.
We did,all the time when we
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 1:18pm
We did,all the time when we had a lot of snow
In front of your own building?
By anon
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 10:56am
"shovel out your own damn space, preferably in front of your own damn home/building."
There are 35 apartments in my corner building. There are 5 on-street parking spots in front of it. It- and the neighboring buildings- offer no paid parking. Unless you can come up with a way to bunkbed park cars on public streets, this simply will not work.
What the Mayor should do is track which streets have reports of vandalism, then, during the next storm, declare them NO PARKING-SNOW EMERGENCY and tow any cars parked on the street. People will learn quickly that vandalizing cars means they don't get to park near their home any more.
Townie bullshiz
By anon burbanite
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 8:31am
This is why I moved from Cambridge/Somerville to the burbs. I have my own drive-way, no one but me shovels it and parks in it. 100% my spot and my responsibility.
The city needs to make street cleaning a year-round activity. December through April - instead of street cleaning, plowing when necessary. Cancel if no snow. Simple as that. Then the streets will slowly be cleared, streets will be back to semi-normal, and over-sensitive townie idiots won't have to complain and vandalize cars because their 10X10' piece of asphalt (that they don't own and is free to anyone with a permit or even the full public) doesn't get taken. Maybe knock down a few busted up building and build a neighborhood-only (permit) parking lot for situations like this when snow is still in the streets and parking is limited.
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