A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about BTD's callous disregard for Beacon Hill residents by refusing to send in a squadron of ticket writers to ding people parking illegally on Brimmer Street to attend Sunday services at an unspecified church on Mt. Vernon Street (Church of the Advent?):
Called in illegal parking violations to be told by parking enforcement officers, that because the church is open on Mount Vernon street, they will not ticket. Why do I get a ticket for parking illegally but if you want to go to church you don’t. This nonsense is taking parking away from beacon hill residents in favor of those coming from outside of beacon hill to park at church. If they need to park, they can pay at a garage or park at a meter.
Ed. note: Boston meters are free on Sunday.
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Yet again we learn charity
By anon
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 6:16pm
Yet again we learn charity doesn’t begin on Beacon Hill.
Where’s John Forbes Kerry
By anon
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 6:18pm
Where’s John Forbes Kerry when you need a Beacon Hill parking compromise?
Amen
By Pure Culchie
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 8:42pm
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand right here before the Lord of song
With nothing, nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Whoa…
By Johnson
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 10:08pm
Oh, boo fucking hoo
I'm waiting for the city hall
By Rwgfy
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 8:03am
I'm waiting for the city hall press release once they are back from vacation.
What I want to know
By SamWack
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 8:14am
is why the Almighty, after having created the Universe out of nothing, after creating this World and all its creatures (including, for some mysterious reason of His own, 3600 species of mosquito), after creating Humans in His own image, and then condemning them to perpetual labor in this world and eternal torment in the next for the crime of moral curiosity, after providing an escape from this sentence (based on a technicality of His own devising) to those who worship Him appropriately, cannot provide said worshippers with parking on Beacon Hill on Sunday. Maybe it’s because it’s his day off.
Nobody in his right mind brings a car to Boston
By necturus
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 8:25am
Walk, bike, or take public transportation. The Lord will thank you for it.
If you could actually count
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 9:29am
If you could actually count on the T, your suggestion would have merit. I’m hoping that Phil Eng is the savior that we need.
The T works most of the time.
By Lee
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 4:29pm
Unless you are disabled, the excuse that it sometimes doesn’t or might take longer than a ride in a private car or require a bit extra walking is just entitled whining.
Can you do math?
By lbb
Tue, 07/09/2024 - 10:41am
When a broken T adds an hour (an optimistic minimum) onto your commute every day, that's an hour out of your life. Does that not matter?
Exaggeration and …
By Lee
Tue, 07/09/2024 - 2:20pm
… more whining.
“The T works most of the time
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 07/10/2024 - 8:47am
“The T works most of the timeâ€, on the day before the T announced that the red line between Alewife and Kendall would be closed until the end of July.
80% is “most of the timeâ€. It also means “you can’t count on it; because one time out of five, you’ll miss your appointment.â€
You forgot to note that there will be shuttle busses ..
By Lee
Wed, 07/10/2024 - 1:09pm
.. replacing the Red Line during the closure so public transportation will still be available.
It helps to factor in possible delays when deciding a departure time.
That’s what the many responsible civic minded T riders who chose public transportation over private cars do.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that Boston hands out …
By Lee
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 9:49pm
… resident parking permits for free. There should be a fee. No one should have free parking on public streets.
When you put zero in the
By Bob Leponge
Tue, 07/09/2024 - 5:05pm
When you put zero in the denominator, weird things happen to the arithmetic. In this case, giving a public resource away for free causes it to be overused. Charging real money for parking stickers would cause fewer people to get stickers, which would make it easier to get a space, which would be welcome news to the rich people for whom $2500 or $3000 per year for a sticker would hardly be noticeable. But other policy objectives conflict with that.
It would be possible to have a sliding scale …
By Lee
Wed, 07/10/2024 - 5:07pm
… to make them affordable to the low income as well.
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