Parking Chairs

[Silurian]

Maybe because they do not find it amusing to do so or its to cold for them to come out.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Milwaulkee ranks 39th.

It still appears to be a local thing with relatively tiny cities and likely greater snowfall than most urban areas experience. There are simply too many cars in high density areas like the Eastern Seaboard to make a daily alternate side parking strategy even feasible. That is why they use a different approach, replete with parking chairs in some areas.

NYC Alternate Side Parking where people need to double park on the other side for 2 hours since parking is so limited is insane, and if that is what I knew as 'Alternate Side Parking', I would cringe and moan as well anytime anyone mentioned the words Alternate Side Parking.

Many people who live in cities don't even bother to shovel out their cars under these circumstances. They just let them sit there until the snow eventually melts.

Then those people don't need their cars badly enough, get those cars off the street. They are taking up valuable parking spaces!

I am confused why bored teenagers haven't gathered these up an torched them

Several people have said that in this thread, but I got to ask......

Burning PLASTIC chairs?

 

[Silurian]

Plastic does burn if you put something on it or put in a fire.

If you look on You tube you will find plastic chairs on fire.

But it seems to be a summer activity as the ^&%^%&^&^ do not like the snow I assume.

 

[Masada]

To answer Abbadon: USA #1!

I think its a pretty good solution to the problem. Go Chicago I guess?

 

[Hygro]

Chairs of this type won't be kept in a public place or in a parked places.People feel inconvenience with these chairs when they make them joyous and funny in residential and urban areas.So,Multi seated chairs other than plastic isolate from one another in a possible distance are suitable for this type of situation.

I know it's a spam bot, but can we keep the post because it's hilarious?

edit: took out URL in quote

 

[GamezRule]

 

[bhsup]

So um, assuming all the snow is gone from Chicago, are any of the chairs still there, abandoned, left to rot in the street?

 

[woody60707]

So um, assuming all the snow is gone from Chicago, are any of the chairs still there, abandoned, left to rot in the street?

They were gone long ago. They only stayed about 2 weeks.

 

[GoodGame]

Immigrants should capitalize on the business opportunities like this, and patrol the streets with shovels whilst soliciting to shovel snow.

 

[bombshoo]

If you use a motorized chair is it okay?

 

[GamezRule]

So um, assuming all the snow is gone from Chicago, are any of the chairs still there, abandoned, left to rot in the street?

Well, all of Michigan just got hammered with more snow, so it is possible that there is snow in Chicago.

 

[Whomp]

This use of "dibs" is pretty funny.

This is a little over the (brake) line...

(CBS) – Chicago’s controversial system of “dibs” turned potentially deadly for one woman.
A 25-year-old Northwest Side resident tells CBS 2 someone cut a brake line under her vehicle last week after she parked in a curbside spot that had been cleared earlier by another motorist.
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she couldn’t find a spot late Thursday to park, other than a spot for which someone had already claimed “dibs.”
Under the illegal dibs system, people who shovel out parking spots after a blizzard lay claim to them for days by leaving items, such as furniture, to block other vehicles. The unspoken threat to dibs-breakers: Their vehicle could get keyed — or worse.
The woman who talked with CBS 2 says she moved aside a white patio chair that had been placed in the spot she took. She says parking was scarce that night. When she drove away Friday morning she says the brakes were increasingly hard to operate.
“I literally had to put all my weight on the brake pedal,” she says.
A mechanic later that day gave her the grim news: A brake line was severed and she was nearly out of brake fluid.
The damage cost her $225 to repair, she says. What bothers her more is the vandal had no regard for her safety.
“It honestly is attempted murder,” she says.
Chicago police say a motorist contacted them over the weekend to report her brake line had been cut in the block of 2400 block of West Iowa. Area Central detectives are investigating.
The woman says she hopes a surveillance camera from a nearby school may produce some evidence.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/02/08/woman-brake-line-cut-for-parking-in-dibs-space/

 

[warpus]

Just make the dibs system legal somehow - seems like it can lead to serious problems like the above due to some people just not taking the unspoken "dibs" thing seriously. Put it down on paper so that everyone plays by the same rules.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Ask the neighbors who shoveled the spot and marked it with the chair. Assume they cut the brake line. Kill them. Problem solved.

 

[Zelig]

Just make the dibs system legal somehow - seems like it can lead to serious problems like the above due to some people just not taking the unspoken "dibs" thing seriously. Put it down on paper so that everyone plays by the same rules.

Eh, well the way to do that would just be to make streets all permit parking only, there's no reason to mess around with silly "dibs".

 

[warpus]

Well, the Chicagoans seem to like them. They also seem to sort of work.

 

[Whomp]

Eh, well the way to do that would just be to make streets all permit parking only, there's no reason to mess around with silly "dibs".

Permit parking is done around busy neighborhoods, like Wrigley Field area, but dibs are still used.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

This use of "dibs" is pretty funny.

This is a little over the (brake) line...


http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/02/08/woman-brake-line-cut-for-parking-in-dibs-space/

People actually leave furniture outside like that and expect it to remain unstolen?


Honestly, Whomp, you people need to either get better public transit or invent the transporter.

 

[Borachio]

Transporter:

Park that outside your house and you've got room for several parking places.

 

[Whomp]

People actually leave furniture outside like that and expect it to remain unstolen?





Honestly, Whomp, you people need to either get better public transit or invent the transporter.

Public transportation is fine but maybe this is the transporter invention we need.