Boston had its first taste of winter on Tuesday when a mess of snow, sleet, and rain pelted the city all morning and afternoon. And though the storm only left a relatively small amount of snow on the ground (just one inch), locals are already getting territorial about their parking spots.
A photo posted to Universal Hub on Tuesday night shows a well-cleared space on East Broadway in South Boston marked off with a bright orange cone.
During the awful, record-breaking, city-ruining winter of 2015, parking became a huge issue among locals. There was too much snow and not enough room for it on the streets, and people ran out of palces to park. Last year, Marty Walsh extended Boston’s 48-hour space-saver rule, which previously allowed residents to claim cleared parking spots for up to 48 hours after shoveling. But even that didn’t solve every issue.
So some people are preparing themselves very early on.
The struggle is real: Sheer minutes of work went into clearing this parking space https://t.co/98jhj3aGLQ #boston pic.twitter.com/eN2ySy1uSS
— Boston News Now (@bostonnewsnow) December 30, 2015
Blame it on the “Snowst Traumatic Stress” most Bostonians are still coping with, or on the memories of what people did to each other in the name of parking last year. But folks aren’t messing around.
Certain reports are predicting that this coming winter will be as brutal as the last, so this is only the beginning of Boston’s Game of Cones (and lawn chairs, and dressers, and trash cans, and so forth.)
