WFXT reports the new BTD regulations along Walter and Bussey streets, aimed at making spaces available for Arnold Arboretum visitors, are causing problems for workers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and Faulkner Hospital.
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Perkins St.
By cw in boston
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 4:42pm
Perkins St. next to Jamaica Pond is a DCR road, I believe. Not the city of Boston.
Wrong
By LarryW
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 6:52am
It's not
Right
By cw in boston
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 7:40am
See DCR Parkways report, p. 192. https://www.mass.gov/doc/dcr-parkways-master-plan-...
Not from Jway to Hyde Square
By LarryW
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 11:47am
And even on Perkins b/w Prince St. and Parkman Drive there have been abandoned vehicles. A graffitied Uhaul was there all summer with expired tags and inspection. It never got towed.
Weeks and months? No,
By Gary C
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 2:38am
Perkins Street has street cleaning once a week, so no one is parking for more then 6 days in a row. They DO tow.
LMFAO
By LarryW
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 6:53am
There's a Jeep from Vermont that's been outside my house since December. Look at all the ignored 311 abandoned vehicle reports.
Jesus, guy
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 12:07pm
Get a real hobby.
That's rich
By LarryW
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 1:19pm
coming from you
Not in winter
By ElizaLeila
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 3:28pm
You know street cleaning stops between Nov 30 and April 1, don't you?
The Hebrew Rehab staff
By Kathode
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 12:02pm
who care for my sister and others often have long commutes and work longer shifts and/or very early shifts. The Harvard land on which Hebrew Rehab Center is built only has so much parking. I hope the administration can figure something out to minimize the commuting hassles for these dedicated folks.
Hebrew Senior Life
By cw in boston
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 12:17pm
owns the land where Hebrew Rehab is located. It is not Harvard/Arboretum land. It was originally the city-owned Joyce Kilmer Park.
Years ago Hebrew Rehab proposed building a parking garage. I'm not sure why they didn't follow through with those plans. That is an option for them.
Thanks for the correction.
By Kathode
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 1:19pm
Maybe they can reconsider that garage.
If the alternative to
By anon
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 4:41pm
If the alternative to allowing on-street parking is building a garage, I say keep the street parking. Off-street parking is a huge waste of land in the city, and also costs a whole lot of money that could have gone to the health care these institutions provide. Parallel street parking is the most space-efficient way to store vehicles.
Replacing street parking with garages is a good way to transform Boston to be more like Miami or Phoenix.
Minor correction
By adamg
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 1:17pm
Hebrew Rehab doesn't sit on Harvard land. It sits on what was at one time a city park, a woodlands aptly named Joyce Kilmer Park.
In 1955, the governor signed a law letting the city sell the 9 1/2-acre park to the Hebrew Home for the Aged, which at the time was located in Dorchester, according to a Globe report at the time.
In the mid-1950s, municipal and state leaders thought nothing of selling off parkland for other uses - that's when the state built Shattuck Hospital right in Franklin Park (although the city parks department drew the line at letting the School Committee build a new Boston Technical High School next to White Stadium).
The sale of Kilmer Park did not go quietly, according to the Globe: Even after a judge dismissed a suit by nearby residents, at a zoning-board hearing on the proposed new Hebrew Home, people started yelling "It's not in your parish!" when Msgr. Edward Murray of Sacred Heart Church rose to support the facility. Others, including the area's state senator and state rep, opposed the project because it would detract from the area's residential qualities.
The board, in fact, eventually voted against the proposal, although obviously at some point, it won a city OK, because the home held a cornerstone ceremony in June, 1960 for its six-story building.
Thanks Adam.
By Kathode
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 1:22pm
This also explains the plaque dedicated to Joyce Kilmer in front of Hebrew Rehab!
Doesn't Faulkner charge the Employees for Parking
By Shawn BY
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 1:13pm
They used to charge the workers to park on the property
Who cares
By Casual observer
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 1:24pm
I live about a block from here and could care less if employees of the Faulkner and Hebrew Rehab park here. Before the Faulkner took away on-site parking for its employees barely anyone parked on Walter or Bussey. There isn’t exactly raging demand to walk the arb in the middle of the day during the week (weekends are a different story). Parking is parking and people working healthcare shifts at this location are going to drive to work given the unpredictable schedule and very limited public transit options. The Faulkner construction has definitely supercharged the issue but that will be over soon enough.
Half good/half bad move
By Waquiot
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 2:18pm
Limiting the parking time on Bussey Street makes a heck of a lot of sense.
Conversely, limiting parking time on Walter is bad. Right now, the cars parked on Walter act as traffic calming, as they narrow the street width. I want to say that before the City got into trying to slow cars down on the street there was no parking going up the hill from Bussey, then it was reinstated.
For the tone deaf, at least before construction began at the Faulkner it was mostly Hebrew Rehab folk who were parking on Walter. No shuttle bus for them.
Ooh boy, I’ve been waiting
By MassMouse
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 2:49pm
Ooh boy, I’ve been waiting for this to happen…
(Sits back with popcorn…)
Paying for parking stickers
By anon
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 2:51pm
When will Mayor Wu finally start charging for resident permit parking stickers? This is something Councilor Wu (remember her?) long advocated for, and now she's in a position to do it.
Is she in a position to do it?
By HenryAlan 2.0
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 12:39pm
I'm pretty sure it would require action by the Council, and we all know from when she pushed the idea as a member of that body, that there was very little support from the others.
Why 2 hour parking? Instead,
By anon
Tue, 02/27/2024 - 4:43pm
Why 2 hour parking? Instead, there should
be all-day meters, priced at a level that results in a few spaces being available at peak times. There’s clearly a need for some people to park all day in the area, and the city shouldn’t make it illegal at any price.
Aggressive agreement
By b from Ros
Wed, 02/28/2024 - 8:21am
2hr parking is really bad parking policy.
What a wasteful way to limit street space use of a (clearly) high value asset.
This seems like a great place to implement a more performance driven system instead of isolating a versatile asset to single function uses.
It will either go underutilized, or switch to a unenforceable mess that only the experienced will be able to take advantage of.
This kind of thing leads to more demand for parking facilities even when they are not actually required. And this will likely trickle down and be borne by all of us in some way, including those who do not use cars...
...increased demand for private parking, traffic, and even healthcare costs.
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