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Citizen complaint of the day: The idling rich
By adamg on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 9:21am
A concerned member of the 99% reports from Oliver Street in the Financial District, where a limo has had its engine running for more than the five minutes allowed by state law:
Idling vehicle in front of Goldman Sachs. Please enforce law by adding an option to citzens connect. The 1% violation?
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"in front of Goldman Sachs"...you mean 125 high st? There are 25 Goldman employees in a building that houses thousands. How exactly do they know his engine has been running for 5mins? Did he stand there with a stopwatch?
It's amazing how many unhappy people feel the need to complain about anything and everything.
Or the city
can enforce the law.
If this was a metered space, you know damn well someones getting a $40 ticket going to the city coffers. Same can be said for idling trucks and businesses trying to do their rounds during the day because the 1% in this city won;t allow night deliveries.
Every time you post one of
Every time you post one of these citizen complaints of the day it says more about the person complaining than it does about the negligence of city workers or inappropriate behavior of other citizens. Like the other day someone complained about leaves covering a sewer grate in the fall, and then theres this.
Instead of going up to the limo driver or leaving a note asking him not to idle his limo for so long (which is kind of stupid but not that big of a deal considering there are thousands and thousands of cars driving in boston every single day), this person had to run and complain to the mayors office. What are they going to do, arrest/ticket the limo driver with no proof (or even evidence) that he was in violation of an ordinance? Get to Oliver street as quickly as possible to demand he kill his engine? I don't understand the tattle-tale mentality of these people... I thought people were taught at a young age to solve their own trivial problems instead of runnning to an authority. I would love to see one of these "concerned citizens" post a picture of a kid dealing drugs in roxbury and get stabbed to death over it.
If you ask one driver to turn
If you ask one driver to turn off his engine, even if he does it there are thousands of other drivers who will continue to idle in the same spot in the future.
If you get the city to enforce the law, or even just post some official "no idling" signs, word will get around and fewer drivers will do it.
And it's easy to get proof. Just have an official walk by, and walk by again 5 minutes later.
I would love to see one of
And what do you think that says about YOU?
"Thanks for a Nation of Finks"
"Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business ... Thanks for a nation of finks."
William S. Burroughs, 1986
the idle not-so-rich
I have noticed on some of my early morning runs in Roslindale, a surprising number of cars sitting on the side of the street idling with nobody inside. Are these from remote starters? It's not even cold yet! And these are not "luxury" cars parked on Poplar and Hyde Park Ave...
Those aren't metered spaces there
it's a cab stand. That block has cab stands on both sides of the street(I don't know why). They can call Scott, the owner of Dav-El and complain, but he's a Sean Hannity rightie and he'll probably tell you where to go if you're not a client.
That spot is primarily used to wait for clients who are begging for money at One Financial, so the cars aren't usually there for more than an hour, before they move onto 75 State or 245 Summer.It gets kind of cold waiting there and some guys leave the car running the whole hour they're there, while some companies can monitor the engine use and will offer incentives to their drivers to not leave the engine running and use all that gas idling. Knowing Dav-El as intimately as I do, they're not one of those forward thinking companies.
I'd've turned it off.
once when I was a messenger, I saw a driver sitting asleep in an idling livery cab. random dude walking by went over and opened the driver's side door...thought he was gonna mug the guy or something, but he gingerly reached in and turned the ignition off, quietly closed the door and walked away. Gave me an awesome idea...
Sorry if this is going to
Sorry if this is going to sound Racist or Classist or Whathaveyou, but try living across the street from a hospital emergency room in a Sanctuary City, b!otches. Seriously.
Seriously?