looking for covered zipcar locations

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

I recently joined Zipcar. Almost a year ago, my car was run over by a snowplow, while parked in the lot behind my apartment building in Arlington. Since then, my landlord has required tenants to move their cars out of the lot when it snows. As I am too disabled to shovel, and nearly too disabled to scrape ice off a car, I spent quite a lot of time, money, and aggravation last winter, arranging snow clearance and snow parking, with most of my winter driving being from "free" parking to parking I had to pay for. I managed to protect my replacement car through last winter, and use it through the summer and fall. Then it was stuck in traffic on Monday, when it was rear-ended by a smaller car skidding on a patch of black ice. And totaled. It's hard for me to talk about this without profanity.

I joined Zipcar so I would not need to hire somebody to shovel out my car every time it snows, or even every time I needed to drive between snowfall and snowmelt. It seemed like a good idea at the time. But the critical appointment I was driving to when my old car was totaled has been rescheduled for next Monday morning...and the weather forecast for Sunday night is predicting a 40% chance of snow. The Zipcar office tells me that some Zipcars are parked in garages, but the best they can tell me about WHERE is, "oh, there are lots down at the Prudential." I don't want to be way over there, in a neighborhood I don't know at all, during rush hour, when I have to get out on I-95.

Can any of you direct me to Zipcars IN A GARAGE, on the 77 bus route or the Red Line? I'll be coming down Mass Ave from Arlington, and would rather not come further than necessary, but the garage is necessary. And I'd prefer to avoid nightmarish traffic, if possible. Before I realized snow was a concern, the Arlington Center Zipcars looked appealing, just it's so simple to get to route 2 from there.

Comments

[wavilyem.livejournal.com]

Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some spaces reserved for Zipcars in the passenger drop off/pick up section of the Alewife garage.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

There are zipcars affiliated with the T station at Alewife. I have reserved one for Monday on faith, and will go look at it tomorrow. *crossing fingers*

[cnoocy]

They are in the garage, never fear. The two nearby at Cambridgepark are also in a covered location.

[mderidder.livejournal.com]

I think there are some on the underground part of the Buena Vista Garage in Davis, too

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Do you know if the Buena Vista Garage has another name? I don't see it on Zipcar's map.

[mderidder.livejournal.com]

They describe it as behind the Au Bon Pain on the first floor. The location is Davis Sq/Holland St

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Yay! Found it.

[tim-sackton.livejournal.com]

The Zipcars at Davis Sq/Holland St are not in a covered garage, they are in a surface lot.

[soong.livejournal.com]

there are 5 or 6 zipcars in a garage in kendall sq behind Legal Seafoods on Ames st

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Fortunately, it looks like there are some options on this side of Harvard.

[obie119.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there are some in the Green Street garage at Central Square. Good luck, and sorry this is such a pain!

[jennifer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there definitely are a bunch there.

[wellthan.livejournal.com]

the Garden St/Fernald Drive car is in a garage, but a bit of a walk from mass ave.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I had no idea that was there at all. Thanks.

[witzwurst.livejournal.com]

There are 12 ZipCars in the Charles Hotel garage.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

There's a few in the garaged lot near Malden T station, but that's off the orange line. Careful! there's some in the outside lot at the Malden T station too.

[sundaisy-summer.livejournal.com]

Worse comes to worse I've noticed that Zipcar is usually very quick and diligent at cleaning out the spaces around their cars. There is one outside near where I live and I always think to myself how I wish they would shovel the rest of the spaces on my street, they do such a nice job!

Good luck!