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You can pretty much just replace all instances of "Boston" with "Chicago" for that entire article (except the 2 hour grace period thing). When I lived in Chica

by city41 17y ago

You can pretty much just replace all instances of "Boston" with "Chicago" for that entire article (except the 2 hour grace period thing). When I lived in Chicago and had a truck (tiny little Chevy S10), I came to know first hand how aggravating the street cleaning schedule was and built up a collection of tickets to prove it. My truck also got broken into despite it being completely empty and having a bench seat clearly showing anyone who walked by it was empty. I'll also never forget coming home around 7pm on a weekday night and literally driving all over the neighborhood for 2 hours waiting for a spot to open up. I was so happy when I got rid of that thing.

wallflower 17y ago
> literally driving all over the neighborhood for 2 hours waiting for a spot to open up. The NY Times in a feature on holiday parking in NYC mentioned this guy's blog which is all about finding a parking space before/after/during street cleaning hours in NYC. I wouldn't think reading about someone finding a parking space would be so fascinating but it is strangely entertaining. http://alternatesideparking.blogspot.com/ http://alternatesideparking.blogspot.com/
sachinag 17y ago
This is why I was happy they jacked up the parking rates in Chicago - they now roughly match the actual value of the spaces for a given moment in time. I hope they do so in Boston now that I live here (technically Somerville). Here's Felix Salmon's excellent analysis of the deal (with help from Parking Ticket Geek): http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/24/chicagos-parking-deal-revisited/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/24/chicagos-pa...
barrkel 17y ago
I'm reminded of the joke from Futurama - paraphrased, nobody drives in New York, too many cars!
- zck 17y ago
  As far as I know, that's originally from Yogi Berra. From wikipedia: "On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.'". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra)

by city41 17y ago

wallflower 17y ago

> literally driving all over the neighborhood for 2 hours waiting for a spot to open up. The NY Times in a feature on holiday parking in NYC mentioned this guy's blog which is all about finding a parking space before/after/during street cleaning hours in NYC. I wouldn't think reading about someone finding a parking space would be so fascinating but it is strangely entertaining. http://alternatesideparking.blogspot.com/ http://alternatesideparking.blogspot.com/

sachinag 17y ago

This is why I was happy they jacked up the parking rates in Chicago - they now roughly match the actual value of the spaces for a given moment in time. I hope they do so in Boston now that I live here (technically Somerville). Here's Felix Salmon's excellent analysis of the deal (with help from Parking Ticket Geek): http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/24/chicagos-parking-deal-revisited/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/24/chicagos-pa...

barrkel 17y ago

I'm reminded of the joke from Futurama - paraphrased, nobody drives in New York, too many cars!

zck 17y ago
As far as I know, that's originally from Yogi Berra. From wikipedia: "On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.'". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra)