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In America the government is
In America the government is only efficient when it comes to giving hands out to car drivers.
I know I shouldn’t be surprised
But are you seriously complaining about car owners being allowed to park *double checks article*…in a parking garage?
Allowed to park ...in a parking garage*
*for free.
Oh no!
Free temporary parking–to get cars off the street so lanes can be plowed (which benefits transit, winter cyclists, and pedestrians as well)–for a whole 48-72 hours (if that) during a snow emergency? Scoundrels!! How entitled can you get?!
Give me a break /eyeroll
On street car storage is already free, speaking of entitlements
Maybe charging a reasonable fee could help fund clearing sidewalks/curb cuts of snow, since we know its a benefit to transit riders and pedestrians.
And its often ignored by property owners and isn't addressed during those 48-72 hour snow emergencies.
EDIT: I shouldn't say often ignored, I know it can be a different story in some neighborhoods but it does seem to be anecdotally an after thought on major pedestrians routes and theres plenty of 311 tickets to back it up.
Often ignored by property owners?
Do you even live in Boston? Because in Dorchester there are maybe one or two bad apples out of a hundred, but almost everyone shoves their sidewalks and does a really good job too.
Brighton resident but go off
I did edit my comment to say it was anecdotal so hey, different experiences for different folks.
Maybe you were too angry to read that far ¯ \_(ツ)_/¯
Not angry, but when you paint ‘property owners’
As the bad guys, it hits a little home. You just assume property owners are the only ones not shoveling because they’re rich and all. I don’t know why I’m even spending time responding because your tiny little neighborhood sucks at clearing snow, but the city is a lot bigger than just Brighton.
Doing a lot of assuming there
My concern is fellow citizens, both in my neighborhood where I live and also where I work, not being able to get around safely due to a lack of sidewalk snow removal.
I mean, here you are responding to it. couldn't I just say the same about your neighborhood being an outlier? Again, its all anecdotal and I think you're def mad about it.
https://twitter.com/dril/status/549425182767861760
EDIT: Also, speaking of Dorchester and snow removal on sidewalks.
https://311.boston.gov/reports?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=snow+sidewalk+dorchester
You assumed all unshoveled sidewalks are owned by some rich
Landlord. Then assumed all neighborhoods are like your Brighton neighborhood. King of assumptions here.
Show me on the doll where I made those assumptions
Haha you have no substance to your argument and are just grabbing at straws.
No comments on the 311 posts in Dorchester? Seems like there are more than "one or two bad apples" you mentioned.
Stay mad robo!
Well by that logic
why can’t the funding come from ticketing property owners who don’t clear sidewalks? Make that problem literally pay for itself.
Why not both?
Car storage after all demands use of valuable public resources, BTD enforcement and the land itself. It should be priced to reflect that.
Ticketing property owners sounds great but (again anecdotal) from my experiences with 311, you're lucky if the reporting results in a fine and it hasn't seemed to have pushed some particular property owners to do this.
Just my experience on my walk to the grocery store/T post-storms. Then it melts and the tickets quietly go away. Oh and if it doesn't melt after a few days, you'll find you cannot open 311 cases specific to snow removal.
What it sounds like
is you’ve identified the actual problems that need solutions here. So why not call to fix them instead of copping out with the easy “make ‘entitled’ drivers pay for it” argument?
Drivers should have to pay for car storage
And property owners should pay when they don't clear the sidewalks in front of their properties.
Both can help fund for snow removal on the roads and sidewalks that don't get cleared. Because lets be honest, even if enforcement on property owners was stricter, the snow still remains and impacts safe passage by pedestrians. For motorists? It always gets plowed, so their mobility isn't impacted.
And it would be additional funding for the costs that car storage demand of the city.
But lets not pretend that free car storage isn't an entitlement.
*Faints*
*Faints*
Limit clarifications
How many space savers are you permitted and how badly are you permitted to damage other vehicles that are taking "your" garage spots.