This anarchistic custom needs to go. You are overstepping the laws when you claim "dibs" on a parking space on a public street and place a ratty piece of furniture there. I have never seen this lawless custom tolerated anywhere else.
And we need to discard permit parking while we're at it, because that just legalizes this nasty custom. Permit parking just penalizes visitors to the neighborhood for patronizing local restaurants and retail. Do we want people punished for supporting our businesses? Do we want visiting friends to get a $30 ticket as a reward for coming to dine with us?
Needless to say, the free parking spaces in Loyola Park need to be metered.
If you want a guaranteed parking space, rent it or buy it. All public parking should be just that, PUBLIC, and open to all on the same terms, including people from other neighborhoods and cities who might want to visit you, or patronize a local business.
Special Note to Raz: You surely are within your rights flinging the chair out of the space and parking there. However, it is not wise in our current context, which feeds the sense of entitlement to "my" parking space. The person who placed the chair there might decide to take revenge. Someone I know flung a chair out of a space on the northwest side and parked in it, and when he returned to his car hours later, found it totally encased in hard ice. The chair owner had angrily hosed his car down for revenge.
this saving parking space thing.......well, I don't have a car, and in this weather, I am so glad, but, I walk home from work on the later side of the night, when people are sleeping, and all of that furniture that they've been using to save spaces, that they leave on the sides of the street, well, I've been getting my pick at my new lawn furniture! So Far, I've got two awesome lawn / beach chairs, a really nice table for my back porch, and I'm now on the hunt for a couple of nice lawn chairs for my pack porch.....maybe some one will leave a weber grill outside...... we'll just have to keep looking
Rogers Parker, I love this! Thank you for picking up this junk and getting it off the streets. We shouldn't have to tolerate the degradation of public spaces by household junk left on the curb by selfish pigs who use it to "reserve" a piece of public property for their own use.
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Reminds me of when I first moved here in Bridgeport - too funny! Like people aren't going to move a chair if they can't find a place to park! LOL
This anarchistic custom needs to go. You are overstepping the laws when you claim "dibs" on a parking space on a public street and place a ratty piece of furniture there. I have never seen this lawless custom tolerated anywhere else.
And we need to discard permit parking while we're at it, because that just legalizes this nasty custom. Permit parking just penalizes visitors to the neighborhood for patronizing local restaurants and retail. Do we want people punished for supporting our businesses? Do we want visiting friends to get a $30 ticket as a reward for coming to dine with us?
Needless to say, the free parking spaces in Loyola Park need to be metered.
If you want a guaranteed parking space, rent it or buy it. All public parking should be just that, PUBLIC, and open to all on the same terms, including people from other neighborhoods and cities who might want to visit you, or patronize a local business.
Special Note to Raz: You surely are within your rights flinging the chair out of the space and parking there. However, it is not wise in our current context, which feeds the sense of entitlement to "my" parking space. The person who placed the chair there might decide to take revenge. Someone I know flung a chair out of a space on the northwest side and parked in it, and when he returned to his car hours later, found it totally encased in hard ice. The chair owner had angrily hosed his car down for revenge.
Dibs is a poor idea for our neighborhood with such scarce parking 24/7. Especially more than 48 hours after the storm.
this saving parking space thing.......well, I don't have a car, and in this weather, I am so glad, but, I walk home from work on the later side of the night, when people are sleeping, and all of that furniture that they've been using to save spaces, that they leave on the sides of the street, well, I've been getting my pick at my new lawn furniture! So Far, I've got two awesome lawn / beach chairs, a really nice table for my back porch, and I'm now on the hunt for a couple of nice lawn chairs for my pack porch.....maybe some one will leave a weber grill outside...... we'll just have to keep looking
Rogers Parker, I love this! Thank you for picking up this junk and getting it off the streets. We shouldn't have to tolerate the degradation of public spaces by household junk left on the curb by selfish pigs who use it to "reserve" a piece of public property for their own use.
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