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Yeah, yeah, Science and whatever, but where's the real actionable intelligence from the boots on the ground that climate change is a real thing? Facts you can have a beer with. We may have just found them. The city of Waltham (just outside Boston), have lifted the winter-long parking ban that many cities and towns in the area institute from the end of November until spring. Why? Snow doesn't happen anymore.
Frank Lombardo, clerk of the city's traffic commission, said the commission decided to temporarily lift the ban, which prohibits parking on city streets from 2 a.m. through 6 a.m., at its December meeting.
Traffic officials will revisit the topic in the spring to see if the town should get rid of the ban permanently.
"The need for the parking ban seemed to melt away, so to speak, because the snow wasn’t there," Lombardo said. Boston Globe
Sounds like common sense, reasonable decision making, right? But when was the last time you ever even heard of that being a possibility when it comes to parking restrictions in any town? Say what you will about the data behind climate change, but when you've got a city turning down a reliable stream of revenue because there's no plausible reason to argue for the practice anymore, you know we're in the middle of some world-changing shit.
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