Space-saver wars: City picks them up, residents just put out new ones

This last big snow storm was wet, heavy, and persistent. Yes it did take a couple of hours for this 64 year old man to shovel my porch and stairs, my walkway, the sidewalk in front of my house and 2 spaces for myself and my partner, including all the snow pushed up on my car by the snowplows.

And yes, we use space savers, and most of my neighbors do too. We are not on the map, evidently because we don't complain,and the space saver system works just fine for us.

For what it's worth, if I was Adam I wouldn't let you call people you disagree with scumbags,. When you attack like that, it just shows us you have the emotional maturity of Donald Trump.

I, and virtually everyone else in my neighborhood, use space savers. We are not lazy entitled criminal scumbags as you suggest. I live near a T Station just south of the map, and we have the problem of a lot of commuters who park on our streets and take the T, which even without the snow puts pressure on the number of available parking spaces. We use space savers after a storm and the system works just fine. I am not aware of any fights, or notes, or vandalism as a result of space savers being used in my neighborhood and I have lived here for many years.

If you lived on my street, and if you had a car, of course you would use a space saver. I am only aware of one time in recent years that the city picked up the space savers, and I think that's because a certain area just became a dumping ground for used tires and an old toilet. If the city picks up my space saver I will absolutely put out a new one, but in my neighborhood we don't complain, and the city does not pick up the space savers , because the system works.

It would be a handout to the wealthy.

Talk of "charge market rates for X, and let the market determine the optimal resource allocation" originates with people for whom "optimal" effectively means "more for me and people like me".

If you think there's anti-wealthy-newcomer sentiment now, imagine that they get the on-street parking effectively reassigned to them disproportionately, through fees that are insignificant to them, but hurt long-term residents.

It looks like the non-Bostonian residents who have no idea what it is like to park n the City during a snowstorm are the loudest whiners about cars and parking.

Kinopio, you are a car-hating dork with a real apparent chip on your shoulder, but you're right on this one. The city needs to enforce permit parking with some interspersed visitor spots. There are way too many freeloading out of staters dodging Mass excise and insurance rates with no consequence. Space saver abuse is another problem. It's one thing if there's a legitimate snowfall, but some people seize the opportunity to reserve spots beyond the weather limitations. Not everyone saving a spot is a "scumbag", but there's at least a sizable population of lazy and entitled people out there,.

It overlays pretty well with how many white people are in the area too. Which is pretty much who thinks they're entitled to public property.

West Roxbury is also really white, but most houses have driveways and/or are far enough apart that more cars than household members fit in front of each one.

These comments personify the typical d-bag that follows your site and how big of one you are Adam for allowing the comment through. Nice job.

Nah, I'm waiting for his Superbowl LI movie: Another Patriots Day

He'll play a fictionalized, composite character (he's QB, coach AND owner's son).

Mysteriously, the role of Martellus Bennett will be left out of the cast.

We can pretty much get anything collected for free with curbside pickup.

is the same as Menino's. Until the City gets serious about REMOVIING the snow, instead of plowing it from intersection to intersection, then people will continue to use space savers. City Hall should get off their lazy asses and look how other cities deal with snow. And they can do it from their lazy ass desks on Google.
You also have numerous vehicles which haven't moved since the first storm that are covered with snow and should be towed off the streets the same as removing space savers.

I thought the city bought giant snow melters, not snow-blowers. (I think. Maybe they have both?) But on Twitter, I only see them working the old-fashioned way, with front-end-loaders.

I believe they've mostly working on main streets like Mass Ave. It makes sense to clear major corners, bus stops, bike lanes, etc. But yeah, they also need to clear side-streets as this thread indicates.

Selfish,entitled people? Actually most of my neighbors are pretty generous and humble here in South Boston and we all use space savers. And when I see that my elderly neighbor has left her chair out two days too long it doesn't bother me at all.

We use them, to be sure, but we don't whine like a bunch babies with dirty diapers, and we are not on Adam's heat map. We like space savers. They work just fine.