You are so wrong, at least as far as residential streets are concerned. Parking rudeness is one of the major causes of neighborhood strife. If someone digs out a spot, it's mean and lazy to take that spot. What if it's a little old lady who went out to get groceries, and when she comes back, must put her osteoporoded bones in danger as the sun is falling and ice is forming to dig again? No.
I love this guy's solution. We have numbered, assigned parking in our neighborhood, but there's always some ahole who wants to use others' hard work for nothing. This is a non-violent, non-destructive solution so much better than an indignant note on the windshield or damage to the offender's car.
“... there’s always some ahole who wants to use other’ hard work for nothing”.
I agree totally. Once again in our society, there are those (in this case the NY’er) who got something based on another’s hard work. The original space guy... simply allowed him/her to “earn” their space by removing the snow. It was a non violent, non destructive solution and message in my opinion.
I love this guy’s solution.
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Fine. Make it a law. Oh wait. There already are laws. Laws that must make you move your car from one side of the street to the other after a few hours. Laws that limit how ling you can park in that spot. And more. Much more.
Thank God I live in Texas.
What you’re describing is fine with assigned parking, but Boston has neighborhoods where they give out 4x more resident parking permits than there are actual spaces. The deal therefore is that once you pull out another resident almost immediately pulls in, and if you get home from work too late, you might end up having to park in a paid garage.
So what these guys in Southie and a couple of other traditionally working class neighborhoods in Boston have instituted is a system whereby as soon as it snows you get to claim and, by intimidating others, keep your own “private” space—just because you shoveled out your car, which you’d have to do to drive it anyway.
The thugs get the parking spaces and the less thuggish can’t park their cars in the winter. That’s the real story.
Boston is one best cities in the world, and this is one of the reasons why. :)