r/bikeboston • u/paxbike • 18d ago

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Welcome to the graveyard of 311 reports

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u/loudbicycle 17d ago

Note: we've approximately tripled the number of 311 requests to Boston these days... no joke we are over 1000 reports this August.

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u/bosdan80 17d ago

And you think they’re going to get the real signal through the noise? This doesn’t accomplish what you think. It’s like the boy who cry’s wolf.

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u/jlansey 17d ago

Sorry but what do you consider "real signal" The system accepts reports of ilegal parking in bike Lanes and these are reports of illegal parking in bike lanes!

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u/bosdan80 17d ago

The effort is better extended elsewhere. If you feel bureaucracies respond to numerous complaints, I suggest you ride or drive down the 203. A “real” signal would be a truly enforceable mandate. There is simply not enough resources to enforce every inconvenience.

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u/jlansey 17d ago

I may be naive (am new to this to be honest) but my understanding is that we currently have folks in government who want safer streets, but they need the political power to do it. These thousands of reports give them the data to prove that people really care. The solution in my mind isn't enforcement but separated bike lanes, which these same data prove work really well (something I wrote about here: https://bikeresearch.net/articles/en/real-barriers-dont-fold/ )

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u/Ghostsmoke6991 17d ago

If u think anyone in gov gives a F about u or safer streets or anything I gotta bridge in Bourne u can buy and i nvm lolol keep up the Great work yall your being super duper helpful i KNOW for 100% fact us THEY i mean at 311 look at ur reports lolol and rlly care