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Good.
That's a great idea.
Demand Based Meters
All meters should be demand based pricing. Parking should be free when there's lot of spots, expensive when there are few.
demand based meters?
more expensive during yankees games? less for kansas city royal games?
Park Drive is residential
This is residential, not commercial. Are there typically meters on residential blocks with no retail?
Meters on residential streets
There are meters on Bay State Road.
The landmark center mall,
The landmark center mall, with bed bath and beyond and the time out food court, is on park drive (401 Park is the new name). I would say a mall is commercial.
I don't think there is parking in front of Landmark Center
and the rest of Park Drive, south of Boylston and looping back further east to Boylston, is residential.
Eh
There's a lot and garage attached to Landmark.
Boylston and Brookline are a shit-show intersection to cross. Doubt many people take advantage of the non-meetered area and cross over.
I feel that the net effect of this would just screw over any residents along Park. In fact I don't think any of Fenway south of Boylston is meetered now that I think of it...
Park Drive is adjacent to a park
Do we pay to park when accessing public amenities where parking is scarce?
Yes. Yes we do.
Sure.
One example being Beacon St. between the State House and Charles St.
Further, pretty much the entirely of Park Drive is within a three-block walk of a commercial district. People walk a few blocks to/from an available parking space all the time.
Back Bay has meters on
Back Bay has meters on residential streets.
mostly a land grab by Berklee
which has very deep political connections in which wants the parking for its staff and student body. This is a major loss to the residents of the area, because resident parking gets gobbled up every year due to institutional expansion. none of the higher ups cares about those of us who don’t have any other option but to drive to work because public transit doesn’t service the areas where we work. One more way that working people are being forced out of the city.
What influence does Berklee have over the DCR?
Seriously, I'd love to know how a small college is able to manipulate a state department like that.
we can’t figure
out the mechanism but they’re clearly pulling strings all the time with DCR
... to do what, exactly?
... to do what, exactly? Berklee has been closed since March.
For Chrissakes
How about the state just spend less (expletive) money?
How about private citizens
find private places to keep their private property if they don't want to have to pay the state for it?
I knew
you’d crawl out from under your rock for this
Cool
Where's my lifetime excise tax paid refund with compound interest?
Deregister Your Car
And stop taking it on those public roads we pay for. Then you won't have to worry about paying excise tax. You are voluntarily registering it.
(Whispers)
I pay for the roads too.
How much a month?
Do you pay for roads? You won't answer because it's so infinitesimal.
And when will you be unregistering your car?
With Excise Tax
So if we refunded everyone's excise tax with interest, how would we fund those roads you drive on? There wouldn't be serviceable roads at all. If that's a viable option, then try getting to your "work" without them.
Good. Time to stop giving
Good. Time to stop giving drivers more free shit than they already have (yes, I own a car).
Why should a state-maintained
Why should a state-maintained street give preference to residents at all?
Residents might have a need for parking more than two hours. But so do some nonresidents. I think the state should have an arrangement to pay for parking on a daily or monthly basis, available to anyone.
DCR is proposing to add
DCR is proposing to add meters to parking that they manage on parkways throughout the Boston area. This is not targeted at one area in particular.
Good. Less handouts to
Good. Less handouts to spoiled drivers. End this welfare.
details on DCR meters, and public hearings
Here are some details, including online hearings on October 14 and 15:
https://www.mass.gov/event/massachusetts-department-of-conservation-and-...
The proposed locations are:
The Fenway, Boylston Street to Avenue Louis Pasteur
Park Drive, Peterborough to Beacon Street
Charlesgate East, Boylston Street to Newbury Street
Memorial Drive, 1 Memorial Drive to Fowler Street
Cambridge Parkway
Dealtry Pool, Watertown
Revere Beach Blvd, Eliot Circle to Carey Circle
The rate would be $1.25 per hour, with no charge overnight.
What they don't say is how long the time limit would be. Most of these locations are the only all-day parking option in the area. There's no city-owned street parking for more than 2 hours, and there are no private lots. I don't think paying $1.25 per hour is a big deal, but they really should let you pay for a full day or more.
Oh well
That's a very odd choice for a place to live if you have a car.