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ChadTower:
Depends on the "neighborhood code", too.  When I lived in Boston the neighborhoods had on street parking only.  People tended to park in the same spots all the time as if they were assigned.  If they had to shovel it they'd put something to mark it like a chair or barrel as described above.  You could get into some real problems with a neighbor if you stole someone's shoveled spot.  No laws involved, that's just how the area works, and if you don't like it you'll be fighting neighbors all the time.  I can't imagine what type of battles are going on there right now given that we've already had nearly six feet of snow.


BTW, where I live now, probably an hour south of there, uses pickups with plowfronts.  Nothing fancy.  The other day I had just finished removing the 3' plow wall from my driveways when the plow came along in an attempt to widen up the street a little.  It pushed the snowbank back in front of my driveways twice as deep as it was when I started. 

Our big problem right now is that there's just no place left to put new snow.  My driveways are 5' apart and there is a solid wall 6' high on that patch of grass.  I just can't put anymore there.  Right and left of the driveways are the same thing.  Thank god it was in the 40s this weekend and a few inches melted away.

Dartful Dodger:
In Chicago they do that chair thing too. It's hard enough to find parking as it is, so if people are lucky enough to park before the snow they now claim that spot until April. 

It's a pain to dig a car out, but if you have want to drive your car you have to dig it out. Claiming the spot is yours afterwards is ridiculous.

After all the snow is melted the City uses the trucks to collect the chairs.

People caught putting chairs in the streets should be ticketed for littering.

Hoopz:
Man, thank goodness I live in the suburbs.  My stepson shovels the driveway, for the most part, so I've got it made.  I've driven through some neighborhoods in Boston where it's only street parking.  I can't imagine dealing with that crap. 

To Savannah:  In defense of the tourists, I'd bet good money that the majority of tourists had no idea that people actually pay for street parking spots or to have them plowed.  They probably saw a clear spot to park, got excited that it was open, and parked there.  If I did that and somebody got pissed about it, I'd ask to see their deed for owning that section of the road and then tell em to ---fudgesicle--- off.  Sounds like a scam to me.   :)

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 31, 2011, 12:27:49 pm ---If I did that and somebody got pissed about it, I'd ask to see their deed for owning that section of the road and then tell em to ---fudgesicle--- off.  Sounds like a scam to me.   :)

--- End quote ---


Maybe you'd come back to a busted windshield.  If you were a real ---tallywhacker--- about it you would find out a couple days later someone filled your tank with diesel.  Stealing spots in those areas leads to some nasty retribution.

SavannahLion:
Xiaou, they've had that technology going on 80 years, not just 30. The problem is whether or not the region can pay for the equipment. That ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- aint cheap, especially if it can't be purposed in the summer.

IRT Hoopz. There are almost always signs indicating reserved parking. And quite frankly, I don't have to show a deed to some ---fudgesicle--- who comes in, ignores signage and tells me to ---fudgesicle--- off. I just wait for the ---uvula--- to pack up and leave the vehicle and call a tow. That's usually $120 in free money. Local police won't do anything, they live there too and deal with the same ---uvulas---.

To go into unnecessary detail. Plows plow the road, not the shoulder. Homes there typically don't have driveway as you would call them. They're more like turn outs. In the winter what is a driveway and what's shoulder becomes blurred. So to get the turnout plowed, you have to pay for it. You can shovel all you want but with 10+ foot snow banks, you quickly lose interest.

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