Boston Herald - A road war is pitting cabbies, truckers and business owners against each other as North Enders seek to limit traffic on hectic Hanover Street with a crackdown on idling vehicles and a proposal to make the storied restaurant row a one-way street....“This is not our parents’ Little Italy anymore,’’ DePasquale said. “The streets are clogged. Deliveries are being made by idling trucks at midnight. Taxis sit there waiting for new fares while people honk to get by. The double parking. It’s all having a negative impact here.” Taxi driver Ahmed Muhammed, 42, of Brighton, who was on Hanover Street yesterday, countered that cabs need to linger because it’s competitive. “There are a lot of us out there,’’ he said. “One-way street is stupid.”
At the risk of being placed on some kind of no fly list or being whisked off to Gitmo, I think I'm going to side with Ahmed Muhammed here.
Frank DePasquale can cut the shit, you know why there is a cluster fuck of traffic on Hanover every single day? Because restaurants have their valet parkers double parking, illegally saving prime spots on the side of the road, and pulling U-Turns in the middle of a heavily trafficked street like a bunch of assbags 24 hours a day. Don't get me wrong, I love eating at the restaurants of the North End, I just thing some of the patrons could use a short 5 minute walk to the nearest parking garage or lot after their veal cutlet rather than having some hustler go and retieve their BMW. Make the restaurants buy lot space in the nearest garages and validate tickets for their customers. It's that simple.
Oh and delivery trucks showing up at midnight? Yea, that's annoying as shit, how about you and the rest of the restaurant owners of the North End wake your ass up and get to the restaurant for an early morning delivery just like 90% of all the other restaurants in the world do.
As for the cabbies, sorry Ahmed, going to have to ask that a cab stand be set up somewhere off Hanover Street. Cops should be taking notice and ticketing cabs who idle double parked, with a cab stand there'd be no need for that. First in gets the first fare, and so on and so on. It works in every other major city, it'll work here if it's enforced.
And there ya go, CW fixing problems using common sense once again.
