Saving Street Spots (Boston: college, taxis, taxes)

[Maroon197]

I don't park on the street anymore, since I now have an uncovered designated spot that is mine. You know what happens when it snows? I have to dig it out. It's not always fun, but it has never taken me 3 hours to do so. Nor has it ever taken anyone I know 3 hours to dig out a single parking spot. If it really takes you multiple hours and breaks your back to shovel out a spot, you probably have a physical disability that makes it such that you might be better off asking a neighbor or loved one for help. The "me first" attitude is a joke--we're all neighbors, and people should be asking how they can help each other out, not figuring out the most effective way to threaten them and vandalize their property. I HATE the entitlement, no-one-matters-but-me attitude that dominates greater Boston.

[eevee]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

Shovel a spot like everyone else.

Sure, let someone double park their car somewhere and hold up traffic on some side street even more so they can dig out a spot. Because that is a swell idea that's sure to cause no problems

[EconHusky]

I think there are times when it's acceptable. It would suck to spend 3 hours shoveling, go pick up a friend, come back 15min later, then have to walk home miles. It's not just public- it's residential/permit. "Public" is a different story to me.

The thing that gets to me are people that let their cars get covered and have left them there for weeks now. You don't own a spot for a month because you left it there to be snowed on.

[Cliff Clavin]

Marty Walsh ices saver policy | Boston Herald

Mayor Martin J. Walsh is throwing in the towel on the longtime practice of kicking space savers to the curb after 48 hours, saying snow is piled too high and residents who spent hours digging out cars should be able to claim the spots — a move being applauded in Southie, ground zero for the city’s parking wars.

Walsh yesterday said he’s indefinitely suspending the policy under former Mayor Thomas M. Menino to ban the space savers 48 hours after a heavy snowfall. Amid the record-setting snowfall that has pummeled the city, Walsh said space savers may be the only way some residents are able to find street parking.

[ormari]

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin

Space saver or no space saver, if you see someone took the time and effort to removed a 6ft snowbank, obviously that someone plans to use that spot. IMO, parking your car there would be a pretty classless move.

I disagree with this. What is a classless move is vandalizing cars, such as what happened to the woman in this story on Boston.com:
Boston Parking Space Savers

In the neighborhood I lived in in Somerville, we all got out and shoveled spots. Was it frustrating if someone else came along and took the spot? Sure thing, but it is a public street. In our neighborhood, we enforced a no-space saver policy. If you left a chair or whatever in the street, we treated it as trash and disposed of it for you. And nobody vandalized anybody's car as a result.

Yeah, the snow has been horrendous. Buck up, pitch in, and don't act like a sociopath.

[pennyone]

If you want a spot of your own that you dug out and that nobody will "steal", then buy a house with a driveway like normal people do and shovel/snow blow it when it snows. Otherwise, you're a numb-nut barbarian.

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by kingeorge

NO. Although I can sympathize to some extent.

If you have tough time parking your car in the city, news flash, time to move out, rent proper parking space, or time to ditch your car. There are actually many ADULT WAYS of dealing with this issue.

If you do not own the parking spot, tough ..... Grow up Boston.

I would go one step further make proof of an owned or assigned off street parking space a requirement to register/re-register the car.

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by pennyone

If you want a spot of your own that you dug out and that nobody will "steal", then buy a house with a driveway like normal people do and shovel/snow blow it when it snows. Otherwise, you're a numb-nut barbarian.

And if you take a clearly residential spot than someone else shoveled out, that makes you an *******.

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

And if you take a clearly residential spot than someone else shoveled out, that makes you an *******.

Oooh! Boston is such a classy city! Maybe I should send a link to the thread to the IOC.

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by AtkinsonDan

Oooh! Boston is such a classy city! Maybe I should send a link to the thread to the IOC.

It's like taking All the free samples, yes it's legal, but not kind.