By adamg on Thu., 11/30/2023 - 9:20 am 
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a Nissan Rogue parked in the bike lane on Tremont Street inbound just past Mass. Ave. in the South End with a very special message for bicyclists yesterday.
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Taped to the window
By Ari O
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:24am
I don't care
That your mirror
was in the bike lane
Get a new one
This is just to say
By fungwah
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:34am
I have taken
the mirror
that was in
the bike lane
Axles Revenge?
By Allstones
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:50am
I have shoved my breakfast banana into the available tailpipe, in the bike lane.
Tailpipe
By BC404Error
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:51am
We’re not gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe!
I'd buy that for a dollar
By Plen-T-Pak
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:52pm
Hey oh
and which
By blues_lead
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:30am
and which
you were probably
not using
for anything
Forgive me
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 2:45pm
Forgive me
it was so shiny
and so in my way
Wonderful
By SamWack
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:08pm
I give you 10 points for the William Carlos Williams reference, and 100 points for not calling attention to it.
At least the bike lane is
By anon
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:43am
At least the bike lane is serving a purpose when a car is parked in it.
Wahhhhhh!
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:39pm
I bet you scream like a little baybeee when a cyclist uses the general travel lane, because cause and effect is something infants have yet to learn.
Dear anony:
By Daan
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 12:39pm
Have you the dignity to express gratitude for each of the cars NOT blocking you because a person is riding a bike instead of driving? When you have grown up and are able to stop yourself from whiny baby cries then feel free to rejoin the commentariat.
Two wrongs always make a right
By robo
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:05am
.
Keep your garbage out of the bike lane
By anon
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 1:56pm
You won't have any problems with your mirrors.
Oh, and consider not complaining about cyclists who use the car travel lanes because of your entitled attitude.
Plate MA 3BZC 98
By BostonDog
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:25am
Putting Massachusetts 3BZC98 in text here so that here so that anyone searching for that license plate will find this story and photo.
90% chance a biker put that on there.
By Pete Nice
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:44am
But who knows.
Maybe
By BostonDog
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:02am
Why would it matter? They didn't put the car there.
Trying to be funny and put fake words in the drivers mouth...
By Pete Nice
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:39am
Not the funniest thing in the world but I can see it.
I can see a car parked in the lane
By BostonDog
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:01pm
Sure, one car isn't a big deal. But when it's every block, every bike lane, every single day it gets pretty old especially when people turn around and say, "why did the city install these lanes if no one uses them!"
I dunno man
By fungwah
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:04pm
As a biker, if I'm stopping to write a note for someone parked in the bike lane...
it's gonna be a lot less polite than that.
It looks passive-aggressive
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 3:31pm
If the driver really didn't care that they were parking in a bike lane, which, to be honest, is most likely the truth, why would they bother with writing a note.
Conversely, someone else- doesn't even have to be a cyclist- might put a note on this car to indicate what they think the driver thinks.
There are whole websites dedicated to people who leave notes like this, but I'm too lazy to track them down right now.
Wow
By lbb
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 9:24am
Are you honestly tone-policing a note on an illegally parked car whose location puts other road users at risk of severe injury?
You would actually go searching or ….
By Lee
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 9:34am
…. posting this note on websites about notes like this?
What curious hobbies you have.
Case noted. Don't hold your
By Rwgfy
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:33am
Case noted. Don't hold your breath.
"Case Resolved | Thank you
By aNon
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 4:09pm
"Case Resolved | Thank you for contacting Boston 311. The vehicle is no longer at this location."
Well if this report was investigated in a timely manner instead of 16 hours later, maybe the vehicle would have still been there.
Why even bother to allow illegal parking complaints on 311 if there is zero chance anyone will investigate it in a reasonable time frame?
Well then
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:32pm
Sounds like 911 instead of 311 it is.
But if you call 911
By Waquiot
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:43pm
You don't get to submit a picture that will be publicly shared and perhaps posted to the Universal Hub.
I stand by my comment already posted here- the illegal parking was real, and bad, but the sign was most likely a passive-aggressive reaction to the illegal parking.
Why bother?
By Lee
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 2:05am
On the off chance that someone is being paid to alert traffic control of the areas that get the most complaints. So more staff can be sent there at times most of the complaints come in.
On the off chance that the someone is doing their job.
You lost me at "I don't care"
By Gary C
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:40am
I'd feel pretty OK if the note said, "Sorry, I couldn't find a spot. I know I'm in the bike lane. Please go around me."
Yeah because their
By Carl
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:31am
Yeah because their convenience is worth more than someone's life
Why is any of it acceptable?
By bakfiets
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:48am
These lanes need to be clear at all times for cyclists, which is what they are legally designated for. Not deliveries, and not selfish assholes. Children, seniors, people with disabilities, new cyclists, and parents with loaded cargo bikes should be able to ride in a designated bike lane.
Anyone caught blocking a bike lane ("they should just go around!") should be required to go out cycling with their children and see how it is when they have to ride around a car blocking a bike lane with 45+ mph traffic as is common in Boston, and then imagine what it would be like if their child were riding to school alone (which it should be safe for kids to do, and only isn't because of entitled motorists and a lack of enforcement). Or ride a heavy delivery trike for the first time, perhaps while wearing goggles that make their vision appear like that of a senior. Maybe we can drug them to give them the slower reaction time of a senior, a child, or a working adult who has physical disabilities that allow them to walk and cycle but not drive.
Obvousily that driver does care.
By u-hub-fan
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:53pm
Just not in the right way.
I hope to god....
By Pete Nice
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:43am
that this is in front of Kinopio's house.
Why?
By lbb
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:54am
Just to be a jerk?
Let’s hope you never know ..
By Lee
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:05am
… where Kinopio’s house is.
My house is apparently in
By Kinopio
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 3:07pm
My house is apparently in your head where I'm living rent free, sweetie. I ride a bike like 7 times per year so its even more weird that you are thinking about me.
Less "I don't care"
By spin_o_rama
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 9:50am
More "I know I'll face zero consequences"
I was wondering what that noise was at
By robo
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:05am
9:20am today. Now I know it was the bike brigade’s gasket collectively blowing.
Doubt it
By Michael
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:14am
It was probably a car crashing into something
Nah, this happens far too often to blow any gaskets
By HenryAlan 2.0
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 1:10pm
What would really blow my mind, would be for people like you to start to understand that this puts lives in danger, then we could have a serious conversation. But when you are a glib asshole, we know not to take you seriously.
Gaskets?
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:33pm
Blowing?
That's drivers in their daily critical mass drive.
Is Melania in town?
By Friartuck
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 10:40am
Sounds like her ...
Ha!
By Lee
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:06am
.
nothing
By tape
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 11:42am
a couple swings of a u-lock can't fix
Once Again...
By John Costello
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 1:07pm
Suggesting or agreeing with potential violent acts.
This time property damage, another time potentially attacking a sitting Boston City Councilor.
Seek help. You have a J6er mentality.
Parking in bike lanes is a
By anon
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 2:00pm
Parking in bike lanes is a violent act,
It deliberately puts others in danger, not unlike shoving someone in front of a moving train.
Property damage =/= violence.
By DS
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 5:01pm
Property damage =/= violence.
(No subject)
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 11/30/2023 - 7:35pm
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVqF5NYJzWE[/youtube]
Question
By spin_o_rama
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 8:57am
Could saying you're gonna drive a car down the Minuteman bike trail be interpreted as suggesting a violent act?
No
By John Costello
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 11:19am
If you don't hit anyone with your car, then no.
For all of you who support the occasional bike seen on the Pike or 93 and yell "Hooray", you then logically would accept a car on the Minuteman. You can't be two faced about it.
If you want anarchy don't be upset when it goes the other way.
Uh
By lbb
Fri, 12/01/2023 - 11:23am
You mean the strawmen in your pocket?
I'll take "things that never happened" for $500
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