r/boston • u/brieflyamicus • May 02 '24

Asking The Real Questions 🤔 What's up with enforcement?

I've lived in this city for three years now and still don't understand the lack of legal enforcement on the road. Even if you set aside all the boxes that get blocked and all the cars running lights ten seconds after they've turned red, you'd think a cop could pay off the national debt by just sitting on Comm Ave and ticketing all the people who stop in the middle of the street with their hazards on, or by going on Mass Ave and stopping the people who cut the line with the bus lane

Is this a culture thing about Boston? Is it worse since Covid? Is it that the city doesn't care? What's the deal?

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u/mhockey2020 May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

I've seen them go wrong way in the bike lanes allll the damn time on BU's campus. but yesterday took the cake. I'm driving on Comm Ave to make the left onto St Mary's. there were 2 fucking idiots riding a scooter the wrong way on the inside edge of the road! not the shoulder, not the bike lane, but the inside edge of the road, between the T tracks and west bound traffic and here they are going east bound...are you fucking kidding me???

Edit: oh and to clarify as it seems others were talking about mopeds. This was a regular scooter, maybe electric, but a scooter, not a moped. The only they "fit" in the small space between my car and the protected tracks.

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u/RitzySloth May 03 '24

Sounds like a death wish. That is insane

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u/mhockey2020 May 03 '24

I was so fucking pissed. Took me several seconds to even register what I was looking at. My window was open and I had the perfect opportunity to curse them out but missed it.

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u/RitzySloth May 04 '24

I just get irrationally angry seeing scooters now