Parking Meter Change

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

According to signs posted in Davis Square:

Parking meters in Davis Square will be in effect until 8pm Monday-Saturday beginning July 1st.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Depends what you mean by walking distance.

Yes, apparently it does. Perhaps I'm the only person in modern day who considers "the amount I can walk in an hour" (3-4 miles) to be a reasonable walking distance.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Nope, not the only one.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

i'm with you on that. OTOH, i'm totally able-bodied.

[ron_newman]

Whereas I use "walking distance" to mean "within a mile", a 20-minute walk. Not that I mind walking further, but it would be misleading to most people if I said that MIT or Arlington Center were walking distance from Davis.

[antimony.livejournal.com]

While I'm perfectly able-bodied (and often walk home from Davis Sq., a three mile walk for me), I consider "walking distance" to be anything within about half a mile, or under 10 minutes walking in heels. I don't necessarily have all day to spend walking about the city.

I never drive to things early enough for the change to matter -- I'd arrive around 6ish, put two hours on the meters, and leave the car. (And I'd usually take the bus, since there is a convenient one that runs late for me.) I don't have a problem with the change, though, since I'm used to the meters in Boston.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

It's distance I can walk, but not walking distance. I wouldn't consider that "walking distance" any more than I'd consider a supermarket that was an hour's drive away to be "local".

That said, I envy that you have enough free time that an hour to get any given place is reasonable! :)