A West Broadway condo association has sued the developers who put up their building and a man who lives down the street but who has a deed to one of its parking spaces, saying the developers sold him the space after they had already given up control of the building. Read more.
Josh Bittker snapped the spiffy new lane near MGH yesterday: "The new Cambridge St. protected parking lane looks great!"
The owners of 24 condos at 88 and 90 Wareham St. in the South End are suing the developer, its real-estate agent and the manufacturer and installer of their building's car-stacking garage system, which they say has never worked right and which they say folded itself into complete unusability a couple months ago. Read more.
Upset citizens from Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston filed 311 complaints this morning about ticketing and towing for street cleaning even though they got e-mail from the city street-sweeping list that there wouldn't be any towing on Bunker Hill Day. Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report this morning about how somebody on N Street in South Boston decided to use a pressure cooker as a space saver:
Probably not the best idea given Boston's history with this type of device. Please pick up the pressure cooker.
A concerned nob filed a 311 complaint yesterday about this simply ghastly space saver at Spruce Street and Spruce Court on Beacon Hill:
Please remove, this isn't Southie
Jaffejoe617 spotted this discarded note from a car parked in East Boston today.
Sunday, people shoveled out spaces. Monday, they left notes for the other people who parked there. Welcome to Dot discovered one note on Welles Avenue in Dorchester today.
Earlier (like from 2015, the Year of the Blizzard):
The Space Saver's Manifesto.
Brendan Little catalogs this Jamaica Plain installation (at Lakeville Road and Centre Street): Read more.
The Night Ridah reports that somebody on Moreland Street at Whiting Street in Roxbury eschewed the more traditional cones or trash cans and used a walker and a tub of Lego pieces to save a space today.
Which means you can save your parking space until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, except in the South End, where if you save a space, you're bad and should feel bad.
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about a craftily camouflaged space saver on Union Park Street in the South End, where space savers are never allowed.
"It's going to be a big one!" Mayor Wu said at a 10:30 a.m. press conference. Read more.
Bacon Doughnut happened upon this newly trash-enhanced SUV that obviously parked in somebody's space. Did you guess South Boston? You win: That's Dorchester Street and West 8th. Read more.
Optimus Prime stood guard over this parking space on Bateman Street in Roslindale today.
Winter better not try to mess with these Public Works guys (photo by city of Boston).
Mayor Wu held her first annual winter-preparedness press conference at the city salt pile and public-works yard on Frontage Road today, where she announced, among other things, the continuation of Boston's traditional space-saving rule: Outside of the South End, once a snow emergency's announced, you can save a street parking space for up to 48 hours after the emergency has been declared over. Read more.
Olivia Mauricio reports:
A Southie love story on East 8th (my car is on the left and she’s been lookin for a sugar daddy)
A roving UHub photographer captured the scene outside the Jamaica Plain Whole Foods this morning.
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on H Street, where people get around the whole ticketing/towing thing on street-sweeping day by double parking on one side of the street: Read more.
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about somebody who parked in a Waltham Street space that's supposed to be open in the mornings for drop offs at a daycare there. "I did not put the sign on their windshield," the complaint emphasizes.
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