‘Respect each other,' Mayor Walsh says about space-savers

BOSTON — After a blizzard dumped over foot of snow on the city Thursday, residents began their winter ritual of digging out their cars Friday morning -- and Boston's mayor just wans everyone to get along.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh spoke at a news conference Friday morning addressing the city's plan to dig out its streets. But he also urged residents to respect space savers and be respectful when using them.

“I watched the news…and everyone had these signs that people made about threatening each other. That’s nonsense. Don’t do that,” he said.

Boston instituted a parking ban on snow emergency routes beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday morning, but that expired Friday morning. Typically, residents are permitted to use space savers for spots they shoveled out for about 24 hours after the parking ban is lifted.

But Walsh explained while watching the news he had seen nasty notes attached to space savers threatening people who might remove them.

“If I see those signs out there, I’ll instruct public works to pick up that space saver and throw it in the truck. If they’re going to be threatening people on the wording. Be respectful of each other,” he said.

He was pressed on whether that was an official city ordinance.

“I just made that rule up right now,” Walsh laughed.

Walsh said crews worked overnight to clear roads, but would continue working Friday to make sure all roads were “down to the blacktop.”

In the meantime, he cautioned everyone to be respectful while digging themselves out from the snow.

“You don’t need that,” Walsh said of the nasty notes. “But also, people who take the space savers, shouldn’t taking space savers, be respectful.”

He sided with the people who ‘did the work,’ noting that it’s respectful to allow them to save their space.

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