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Several Charlestown readers have expressed frustration over even tighter parking around town after the Feb. 8-9 blizzard dropped more than two feet of snow on Boston. When the city lifted the snow emergency and parking ban on Tuesday, Feb. 12, it meant residents who had been parking in temporary free or low-cost lots, like MGH's Building 199 in the Navy Yard, had to fight for spots on the street amid huge piles of leftover snow. For many, the solution was to shovel out a spot on the street and leave a chair or traffic cone to "save" that spot until things cleared up. Today, two weeks after the storm, that tactic is still being employed by some, leaving others frustrated. One reader sent this email to Patch: What's being done about the …
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Alphanaut
8:17 am on Sunday, March 10, 2013
You, the entitled that think "shoveling" snow for 8 minutes entitles you to a parking space for the next two days, sooo annoying. Very little snow on the ground last night, but as I drove around at 8:30pm looking for somewhere to park, space savers everywhere. Problem is, the entitled who think they can save their space even though it's not a snow emergency, are the same people who will key the … more ›