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JP Readers React to Parking Space Saving
The comments about whether you should be able to save an on-street parking space in winter have been pouring in.
The debate about whether it's OK to save your on-street parking space in Jamaica Plain during the winter months rages on. Here are a few of the dozens of comments JP Patch received over the past week.
Jerry O'Connor writes: "I have always been somewhat perplexed, and mildly curious, about this phenomenon. People say "I dug that space out" as if they had excavated a flat space out of a hillside, like a prairie homesteader."
Though most people agreed the practice is unfair, a few readers said they like the idea.
Zooloo writes: "THIS is a GREAT idea! Then people can have their spots when they come back! I am SO AGAINST residential parking permits!"
Reader Scott offered his own solution: "Bring Resident Parking to all of JP and it will solve the problem on Moraine Street. MA plates are in the minority, most of the cars have tags from NH, NJ, NY, RI, Oregon and Washington (wtf?)."
What's your take on the great parking space saving debate?
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yannaro
9:14 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013
All those out of state license plates on Moraine probably belong to students packed into apartments on the street. Not unusual to see 5 or 6 students in an apartment in JP even though the limit is 4 unrelated persons per apartment.
MarkBoston
1:41 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
Once again it's the age old Boston question of saved parking spots in winter ... I place that question right up there with .... What came first, the chicken or the egg ...This issue will be in play as long as there are cars and we have snow ....
Parking is such an issue in JP when it snows that I end up leaving my car buried for days upon days as there is NOWHERE to park when I return . Trying to find a spot when I come home late at night from work is a private hell