When the ice is as cragged and rock solid as it is right now with temps below freezing every day, you don't need 4 wheels of traction to drive on it. You just need enough ground clearance to make sure you don't damage the bottom of your car when one set of wheels leaves a high point and puts it under your undercarriage instead.
As long as your car doesn't melt into the snow pile and end up in a rut before you get back and as long as you're not going to scrape the bottom of your car on it getting in and out, you should be fine.
I drove by that spot not five minutes before the guy parked there. We walked past it on the way to the Flower Show, glad we passed it by. Our sedan would not have been happy parked that way.
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Seeing the photo gives me the
By anon
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:25pm
Seeing the photo gives me the urge to tip it over.
Ok Hercules.
By slowman4130
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:15am
Ok Hercules.
is that wrong?
By bostnkid
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:30pm
I used to do that all the time when I had a jeep and lived in brighton. its like having a moving space saver.
Not at all
By Gary C
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 4:31pm
This is what makes New England great (again.)
Bike Lane?
By spin_o_rama
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:31pm
Must be buried somewhere.
Or non-existent on that
By anon
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:38pm
Or non-existent on that street.
Nope, they exist
By spin_o_rama
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 5:40pm
Just haven't got a fresh coat of paint like the parking spots :)
https://goo.gl/maps/Sg9CpDRWiQE2
I'm not surprised at the fine
By Lmo
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 10:55pm
I'm not surprised at the fine parking job pictured on the map.
As long as your bicycle has
By Refugee
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:59pm
As long as your bicycle has 4WD you should be fine.
The Emerson cops have been parking their SUVs
By roadman
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:44pm
like this on Boylston Street since the storm. Nothing to see here.
Who needs 4WD?
By Kaz
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 2:11pm
When the ice is as cragged and rock solid as it is right now with temps below freezing every day, you don't need 4 wheels of traction to drive on it. You just need enough ground clearance to make sure you don't damage the bottom of your car when one set of wheels leaves a high point and puts it under your undercarriage instead.
As long as your car doesn't melt into the snow pile and end up in a rut before you get back and as long as you're not going to scrape the bottom of your car on it getting in and out, you should be fine.
Note: that isn't AWD or 4WD
By anon
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:04pm
That model of VW is a 2WD.
This is false.
By bostonbob235
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 9:55pm
This is false.
Correct
By Kaz
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 10:51pm
This is a recent model Touareg. They are all 4WD.
Parking on an incline, wheels
By anon
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:45pm
Parking on an incline, wheels not cut in (unsure of fine), and more than 12 inches from curb, so 35 $ fine.
12" from curb
By Kaz
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 8:33pm
They don't measure vertically.
it doesn't actually give a
By slowman4130
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:19am
it doesn't actually give a direction...
Bike Lane...
By B
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 4:08pm
...what bike lane? Hahaha Tool
There is a bike lane
By anon
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 4:36pm
Or a lane for bikes. It is called a travel lane - anyone can use it.
Only tools will whine about that, right?
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By Lanny Budd
Thu, 03/23/2017 - 11:51pm
I drove by that spot not five minutes before the guy parked there. We walked past it on the way to the Flower Show, glad we passed it by. Our sedan would not have been happy parked that way.