Unlike some of its neighbors, Boston doesn't think tonight's snowstorm warrants an emergency declaration, so just use common sense, clear your sidewalk and remember that, even if you don't live in the South End, you can't just save that parking space you shoveled out. At least, not legally.
By adamg - 1/16/25 - 2:59 pm
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a Cybertruck owner who keeps parking in a resident-only space without a resident parking permit - using the old ticket-on-the-windshield trick: Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/25 - 3:44 pm
There's an art installation of what looks like a satellite crashed into the hood of an Altima parked on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing (not to be confused with one of the art installations that look like giant pink blobby guys). Of course, you're not supposed to park on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, even if a satellite just crashed into you car, so somebody at BTD wrote it a ticket.
By adamg - 1/10/25 - 10:02 am
A developer who won approval in August for a 30-unit condo project with 11 parking spaces on Grove Street at Washington Street in West Roxbury yesterday asked the Boston Planning Department to let him put in 30 parking spaces instead. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 2:27 pm
The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.
By adamg - 1/5/25 - 12:01 pm
Over the last couple of days, people all over the city have gotten texts, allegedly from "the city of Boston," that they have a small unpaid "parking invoice" and that unless they go to the link in the text they will be charged "a late fees of 35$." Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/24 - 11:17 pm
Bostonians filled the 311 lines with plenty of road snow complaints today, such as this complaint at 7:16 p.m. about Gallivan Boulevard (which, granted, is a state road, not a city responsibility): Read more.
By adamg - 10/14/24 - 9:59 am
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the owner of a Nissan Versa apparently permanently parked on Weld Hill Street in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
By adamg - 10/10/24 - 3:13 pm
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint about the current parking situation on Beacon Hill: Read more.
By adamg - 8/9/24 - 1:25 pm
A perturbed resident filed a 311 complaint this morning, not because this Tesla Cybertruck is an assault on the eyes but because of the way it's hoovered up parking spaces on India Street at Custom House Street downtown: Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/24 - 2:07 pm
The Boston City Council will consider a proposal by Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester) to deal with the issue of big-ass SUVs making it harder for people with driveways to see oncoming traffic as they pull out by letting homeowners create yellow-paint no-parking areas 18 inches on either side of their driveways - and then calling for $25 fines for people who disregard those zones. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/24 - 9:59 am
A bleary-eyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 1:33 a.m. this morning about the goings at the Roxbury Community College parking lot along Columbus Avenue:
People have school and work tomorrow. Speakers so loud windows are rattling.
By adamg - 7/12/24 - 11:46 am
A Boston board that oversees a federally mandated limit on the total number of parking spaces in Boston Proper voted last month to forbid any more parking at a lot between Hudson and Harvard streets in Chinatown, arguing the 30-space lot violates the parking cap. Read more.
By adamg - 7/7/24 - 12:55 pm
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?): Read more.
By adamg - 7/1/24 - 1:29 pm
A possible dispute over a parking spot on Hutchings Street in Roxbury Saturday afternoon ended when one of the combatants came after the other with a baseball bat, Boston Police say. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/24 - 12:53 pm
An irate citizen with an EV filed a 311 complaint this morning about somebody else with an EV who prematurely unplugged the irate citizen's EV from a charger in the municipal lot behind Centre Street in JP - despite only having been plugged in for an hour.
By adamg - 3/2/24 - 1:03 pm
An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on the East Boston side of Bennington Street at the Revere line: Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/24 - 9:37 am
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.
By adamg - 2/13/24 - 9:30 am
And that means you'll have until 4 p.m. on Thursday to save your parking space, the one you've so arduously dug out (except in the South End and Bay Village, where space savers are never allowed).
By adamg - 1/31/24 - 9:47 am
Brookline.News reports Brookline will soon raise the price for all its parking meters to $2 an hour - bringing them in line with what parkers have to pay across the line in the Hub. The extra money will go, in part, to fix broken meters, which could mean even more revenue.
One member of the Select Board said the increase will be fairly invisible since people nowadays mostly use an app to pay, which is far more effortless than rummaging around the center console for some spare quarters.
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