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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the link to the census data
By cinnamngrl
Fri, 07/12/2024 - 2:40pm
the link to the census data proves that Beacon Hill is a rich neighborhood. He provided nothing that supports his entitlement.
Yes, BH has rich residents
By merlinmurph
Fri, 07/12/2024 - 5:06pm
Yet, as Bob has pointed out (and you thoroughly ignore) is that it is a mix of all types of people. You are grossly generalizing the people on BH. Bob's data shows otherwise as you would see if you looked at it.
The median income is 121K.
By cinnamngrl
Sat, 07/13/2024 - 2:04pm
The median income is 121K. Not the average, the median. Overall it is a rich neighborhood that does not need reserved parking. we should have less entitlements for rich people
$121K is FAR from rich
By merlinmurph
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 9:53pm
If $121K is the median, that means half the residents make less than that. And you call BH rich?? $121K is far from rich. Kids out of college can make >$100k.
Again, delusional.
you are delusionally entitled
By cinnamngrl
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 6:59am
it is enough money to question why the city reserves your parking space.
You called them rich
By merlinmurph
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 12:02pm
They are not even close to rich. And if you want to remove parking from a neighborhood with a median income of $120k, you'll have to remove it from most of the city.
You got the data you asked for and now you don't like it. Just like a Trumper. Too bad.
FWIW, I don't have a parking place on BH or anywhere else in the city. So much for entitlement.
not from dorchester
By cinnamngrl
Thu, 07/25/2024 - 8:06pm
our median income is 81K
A reserved parking permit is privileged. It is bad for the city economy and a stupid perk for people that are surrounded by public transportation and services.
We've been told
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 9:07am
By people pushing for bike lanes that parking isn't completely necessary for businesses to survive?
I mean, pick your poison, I'm all for both parking and bike lanes. But don't be disingenuous about this.
Honestly, I didn't realize that the Residential Parking Only was on Sundays as well. Then again, I'm on a street that doesn't have sticker parking.
pushing for safe streets doesn't mean zero parking.
By cinnamngrl
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 1:35pm
I do think that parking for businesses is needed. In boston people crowd cars in unsafe ways that make pedestrians and cyclists unsafe. I think that bike lanes should be shared bus lanes whenever possible because it serves more people.
Wrong
By LarryW
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 8:16am
If the city didn't then why did I see a BTD van and a BTD car at the same intersection on Sunday morning?
Didn't Jesus Take the Wheel
By Friartuck
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 1:05pm
I mean, if he can't help in this scenario with what is seemingly low lying fruit, what the actual heck?
You can't require churchgoers
By anon
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 1:35pm
You can't require churchgoers to pay for parking. 1st Amendment issue.
You're joking, right?
By Bob Leponge
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 1:42pm
You're joking, right?
Wouldn't bet on it: people
By xyz
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 8:57am
Wouldn't bet on it: people really are that entitled, and everyone thinks they understand the First Amendment even when they clearly don't.
Not only that…
By Lee
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 4:03pm
… you will not be admitted to heaven and will be forever dammed if you deny a parking space to a churchgoer on their way to worship the Lord.
Parking is a privilege
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 5:43pm
Driving is a privilege.
No rights are involved.
lol
By ShamusJP
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 6:10pm
Lmao
Church of the Most Precious Road Rage
By Angry Dan
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 1:53pm
n/t
Do resident parking rules apply in Boston on Sundays?
By Ron Newman
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 2:25pm
They don't in Cambridge or Somerville.
Depends
By Adeas
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 3:11pm
Certain signs will say M-F with hours (sometimes day time, sometimes over night). If days are not specified, then technically restrictions apply 7 days a week.
generally, yes they do
By Fenway Crank
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 5:28pm
but it’s seldom enforced
it makes it very difficult in the Fenway neighborhood
Where the Lowells speak ...
By Friartuck
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 5:17pm
Only to Cabots,
And the Cabots speak only to God.
And God apparently talks to BTD
Urban legend.
By Lee
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 5:36pm
My dad was no Brahmin but a famous Lowell poet used to regularly bum cigarettes off him when we lived on Beacon Hill.
I’ll stack up the percentage
By Bob Leponge
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 6:37pm
I’ll stack up the percentage of housing units in Beacon Hill that are section 8 or otherwise subsidized, against pretty much any other neighborhood in the city. The neighborhood has a long history of forcefully supporting low income housing, and asking that said housing be meaningfully integrated into the neighborhood rather than be sequestered off as “poor people’s housing.” The people living in those properties are my neighbors and my friends.
that is just bizarre
By cinnamngrl
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 7:49pm
Do you really think you have more low income housing than Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury or Hyde Park?
My immediate neighborhood,yes
By Bob Leponge
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 9:02pm
When looking at Beacon Hill you really need to look at the census tract data. Sure there’s little subsidized housing on the south slope; but the north slope has pushed hard and successfully for subsidized housing, putting its money where its mouth is, and the results compare decently with the citywide 17% average.
But facts
By Plen-T-Pak
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 11:43am
Threaten my moral high ground as a self regarded underdog.
moving the goalposts without
By cinnamngrl
Tue, 07/09/2024 - 9:07am
moving the goalposts without providing any data.
Would love to go to Cabot's
By anon
Sun, 07/07/2024 - 9:08pm
Would love to go to Cabot's for some ice cream!
Cabot's isn't what it used to be
By necturus
Mon, 07/08/2024 - 8:23am
We used to go there all the time back in the seventies when I was in college, but people I used to go there with tell me the quality has declined since then and they don't go there any more. These days I go to Lizzy's in Waltham.
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 time”, 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 time”. It also means “you can’t count on it; because one time out of five, you’ll miss your appointment.”
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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