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[USA] Boston city councilor wants to fine cars who block bike lanes, declares pedestrians ‘king’ of Hub (www.bostonherald.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Good luck getting the police to efficiently enforce this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Boston already has a very robust parking enforcement division that aggressively tickets things like expired meters, parking in resident-only areas without a current resident sticker, etc. They also regularly ticket & tow cars when street sweeping is scheduled. It would be trivial for them to add this to their enforcement activities.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    My city has Department of Finance* that issues straight up tickets for vehicles that are in error (no city sticker, illegally parked, or plate stickers or parking during city cleaning.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I wish my city would do this. There is so much reckless driving and auto theft here it's insane. You can't go a day driving without seeing at least one car without any plates. If the police could/would enforce the lower level stuff maybe criminals wouldn't think they could get away with everything. Granted part of the problem is that the very democratic city always asks the state for more police budget and the republican run state congress always denies the request so that they can run their campaigns on pointing to the "lawless" democratic city.

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