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Mon, Nov 27, 2006

Parking space

Posted at 6:42 pm MST to Current Events

This morning the radio news announcer mentioned that someone has just paid $250,000 -- yes, one quarter of a million dollars -- for a parking space in a Boston alley.

I hope he got the mineral rights with that.

I find this especially amazing because, as US cities go, Boston has an amazing public transit system which is actually useful. By useful, I mean that it it probably possible to use the MBTA to get from point A to point B almost anywhere in the greater Boston area. And there are tentacles of commuter rail stretching out in all directions.

There have GOT to be more sensible alternatives than spending a quarter mil for a piece of an alley... and I wonder how the purchaser plans to stop other people from parking in 'his' place/

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