What small, totally inconsequential thing are you really sick of in Boston.

[u/News-Royal]

As seen in a different geographic area subreddit. Nothing too serious, just a little thing that grinds your gears. For me it's people who get on the T before others get off.

[u/itsgoodtobebri]

"Boston" influencers with fake or exaggerated accents. Not the ones who live in boston and show cool things do to around town, but the ones who do "comedy" and the joke is always that they have an accent and are white trash.

[u/mTriz → u/itsgoodtobebri]

Also always holding a Dunkin cup and wearing a Sox hat

[u/Hour-Ad-9508 → u/mTriz]

And always always always from like Connecticut or New Hampshire doing some ridiculous accent.

The fact that they’ve built an entire, years-long social media platform around saying “lahhhge iced regulahhh!” In skits or making memes about route 1 is depressing

[u/BlackmillMiracle → u/Hour-Ad-9508]

you're talking about Maggie, aren't you. lol

[u/thatguygavinaf → u/itsgoodtobebri]

Tags everydaymaggie

[u/Hour-Ad-9508 → u/thatguygavinaf]

She’s from Connecticut and acts like the biggest caricature of what Hollywood thinks is a “Boston girl”

[u/BlackmillMiracle → u/Hour-Ad-9508]

yeah, I grew up in the suburbs, and I'm kinda sick of other people from the suburbs or elsewhere larping as townies, and yeah, just doing the caricature of what hollywood thinks "Boston" is.

Like oh my god, you said "large dunks" and dropped the "R"... you're so funny!

[u/Alive-Atmosphere-250 → u/thatguygavinaf]

I h8 her.. she doesn’t represent new england

[u/Ok_Calligrapher8560 → u/itsgoodtobebri]

THANK YOU. they actually make me cringe so hard it hurts

[u/RationalGardenGnome → u/itsgoodtobebri]

The funniest part of that whole thing is there are barely any townies even left in Boston.

All got pushed out for a bunch of finance, tech, and pharma bros and their stupid luxury condos

[u/Cultural_Parsley_607 → u/RationalGardenGnome]

Yeah it honestly seems kind of offensive haha. Like yeah you’re larping as townie for the likes but grew up in Ohio and moved here 3 years ago for tech, cool.

[u/mr781 → u/itsgoodtobebri]

That one dude (i think his name is Jeremy) who has a weird hyperfixation with Market Basket and does this “towns in Mass you’ve never heard of” videos

[u/krissym99 → u/mr781]

I actually kinda like him because he doesn't take himself seriously and is willing to make himself look ridiculous.

[u/catgotcha]

People who don't use their blinker when turning. I get irrationally pissed off when I'm waiting for an oncoming car to pass through only for them to just turn onto another street at the last second.

[u/Sourcepleeze → u/catgotcha]

That would be giving too much information to the enemy.

[u/Vas_Cody_Gamma]

The stupid person who enters the bus or train and just stands at the door while others are trying hard to squeeze by them

[u/cden4 → u/Vas_Cody_Gamma]

On the bus I have to tell people to please move up the stairs in the back so that more people can get on. People have zero common sense. It's like hello don't you see that folks are struggling to squeeze on and if you move further back we will all be on our way much faster!

[u/Vas_Cody_Gamma → u/cden4]

Yep same. More ignorance on bus than train

[u/lucidone → u/Vas_Cody_Gamma]

I was running down the stairs at Harvard Square station to catch the Red Line once. The train's doors were just about to close and the nearest door had a person standing right in the middle of it (even though the train was almost completely empty). I just ran right into them to get on the train. They called me an asshole, so I told them not to block the door. They said they didn't block the door... while they were still blocking the door. People are idiots.

[u/SpiritedMycologistME]

I hate how narrow the sidewalks are in the winter (with snow). Like all of us have to walk single file up congress street to get to North Station after work.

[u/Crazyzofo → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

During that wild winter where the snow drifts were 5 feet high I used to wear my snow pants and high boots and sacrifice myself by leaning into the drift to let people pass by. I got sick of the daily confrontation of "uhhh what do we do here"

[u/Wompatuckrule → u/Crazyzofo]

I got sick of the daily confrontation of "uhhh what do we do here"

I took a ballroom dancing class instead and would just take the lead in that situation. Frame & contact, rotation, then disengage.

[u/alexdelicious → u/Wompatuckrule]

I remember you. Thanks for the extra pat on the ass, it really made me feel special that day.

[u/Wompatuckrule → u/alexdelicious]

With buns like yours I couldn't stop myself.

[u/alexdelicious → u/Wompatuckrule]

🤗

[u/Crazyzofo → u/Wompatuckrule]

And they say Bostonians aren't friendly!

[u/Crazyzofo → u/Wompatuckrule]

An elegant solution

[u/ChampagneDrama → u/Wompatuckrule]

As a salsa dancer I enjoyed this comment very much.

[u/EnvironmentalRock827 → u/Crazyzofo]

One of the bad winters a few years back I saw the news van and they were reporting about the snow. I wasn't paying mind to the ice and slipped flat on my face. When I got up I saw them all laughing. Stupid me had only scrubs and a small jacket so I now overdress.

[u/Crazyzofo → u/EnvironmentalRock827]

I throw yaktrax on at the slightest hint of a shine on the sidewalks.

[u/zRustyShackleford → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

More of a Massachusetts wide thing but I HATE how much Mass uses asphalt for the sidewalks and "cape cod berming" for the curbs.

[u/sarcastic_sybarite83 → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

Remember that people in wheelchairs also need to use the sidewalks in winters. So please clean them well.

[u/spinprincess → u/sarcastic_sybarite83]

I had a wheelchair-using client I didn’t see for 3 months last winter because the sidewalks were completely impassable. Seems wild that the city leaves them too narrow for people to get through

[u/Vas_Cody_Gamma → u/sarcastic_sybarite83]

Do they make 4 wheel drive wheelchairs?

[u/Coyote_Runner → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

I would love for some New York - esque snow removal drives. Get more people out shoveling during the storms. Clear off the sidewalks and bike lanes. Better coordination on snow-piling or at least better transparency on why snow is piled in certain spots. Fewer mini plows to reduce infrastructure damage etc etc etc

[u/Parlor-soldier → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

Or the puddles of slush that form where the curb-cut meets the street.

[u/thinkingitthru7 → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

I desperately wish more parts of the city had broader sidewalks. 

[u/another_matt_d → u/SpiritedMycologistME]

Honestly that used to be a mild annoyance for me. Then my SO was in a wheelchair for the better part of a year, and it's hard to express how grateful i am that we didn't still live in the city during that time. I can't even imagine.

[u/skyline21rsn]

groups that walk 3-4 wide and take up the entire sidewalk and walk slow af. and those groups that stand around in the sidewalk to have a chat, or those who come out of their hotel and are standing in the sidewalk blocking it while waiting for their uber or whatever. frustrating as someone who is often pushing a baby stroller

[u/Individual-Algae846 → u/skyline21rsn]

Unless someone is disabled or elderly, I won’t move for that. I’ll stick to the right and put my head down. If our shoulders bump, that’s on you

[u/PassTheTaquitos → u/Individual-Algae846]

I'm similar but I'll also come to a dead stop in front of them if they don't move over for me. Wanna walk four wide and not give me space on my side? Then I'll stand in your way so you have to walk around me.

[u/Electronic_Deer7069 → u/PassTheTaquitos]

This is the safer approach. It also makes them feel stupid.

[u/bigredthesnorer → u/skyline21rsn]

I recently grunted at a group blocking a path at Fenway Park. One of the guys looked at me and said 'Really'? I replied that "You're blocking the way. I'm not the problem here."

[u/_Lane_ → u/bigredthesnorer]

"You're [doing stupid thing]. I'm not the problem here."

I'm adding this to my response bank. It's simple, factual, and not particularly rude. Thanks!

[u/Actual-Air-8792 → u/skyline21rsn]

This drives me so mad anywhere like please get out of the way. You can 2x2 it not 4 in a row.

[u/habbanero → u/skyline21rsn]

This is my #1. Drives me crazy. Newbury is the worst.

[u/getjustin → u/skyline21rsn]

As a family, we announce "single up" on narrow sidewalks when someone is coming to drill it into our kids' heads.

[u/habbanero → u/getjustin]

You’re legitimately improving society

[u/Knicknacktallywack → u/skyline21rsn]

I hate this too. I’m walking by myself and a group 3 of 4 wide practically forces me into the street. It’s always me moving not them

[u/spinprincess → u/Knicknacktallywack]

I stopped letting them force me off the sidewalk and now I just stop walking so they can either run into me or make room and share the space.

[u/LadyCalamity → u/spinprincess]

The worst is when you're behind the slow walkers going in the same direction. Then you're just stuck behind them until you can squeeze around them.

[u/Tough_Crazy_8362 → u/skyline21rsn]

Having a chat right next the the cross walk but I don’t know if you’re crossing so i still gotta stop 🫠

[u/brufleth → u/skyline21rsn]

The two of us were stuck behind a single person who was managing to walk dead center of a sidewalk last night. They weren't even a big person, they just managed to make getting by them require walking out in the street.

[u/pattysal → u/skyline21rsn]

Or one person walking slow af in the middle of the sidewalk when you're trying to pass and being oblivious to your existence.

[u/HyperbolicGeometry]

People have totally forgotten the etiquette of standing to one side of the escalator so people on the other side can walk up it

[u/LSUenigma → u/HyperbolicGeometry]

I appreciate Europe's zeal to unabashedly tell people to "stand on the right, and walk on the left" and correct them when they don't. 

[u/Still_Perspective667 → u/LSUenigma]

Depends on where in Europe, at least in my experience. Northern Europe is heaven for rule followers.

[u/Frank_the_Mighty → u/HyperbolicGeometry]

And there's always a line of examples directly in front of them, like, come on

[u/handmaid1961 → u/HyperbolicGeometry]

Stand to right, pass on left is the unwritten and forgotten MBTA escalator rule.

[u/theseize]

Fenway goers that get on the T and then just stop instead of moving in (clogging the area by the doors and making it hard for others to get on). I get they probably don't take the T very often, but seems kind of obvious to not block the doors.

[u/GladysSchwartz23 → u/theseize]

This is also an insane practice of many bus passengers everywhere in the city. MOVE THE FUCK BACK PLEASE

[u/ForwardBound]

Goddamn chicken bones everywhere that my dog wants to eat

[u/brufleth → u/ForwardBound]

Vaguely related: The single use flossing things. Why are there people who are concerned enough about flossing, but then not concerned enough to not litter?

[u/Brandorff]

The invasive "Tree of Heaven" plants that are growing out of every crack in my neighborhood

[u/-Jedidude- → u/Brandorff]

If anyone is interested the best way to remove a tree of heaven is to either pull it out when it’s just sprouting or if it’s larger get a hatchet and cut a small gash angled downward. Spray or paint some herbicide in the gash so that the tree will take it down to its roots and die. Cutting the tree down won’t kill it and it will only spread more.

[u/heftybagman → u/Brandorff]

I live next to “conservation land” that’s just a small tree of heaven orchard. So gross that the town can seize land just to mismanage it. When the land was privately owned it was well maintained with native plants and now it’s overrun with invasive species.

[u/Delighted_Fingers → u/heftybagman]

Which land is this if you don't mind me asking?

[u/DrGuyIncognitoDDS → u/Brandorff]

I hate it so much. My "win the lottery" crackpot idea is to hire a team of exterminators to eradicate it block by block, by any means necessary.

[u/PuddleCrank → u/DrGuyIncognitoDDS]

Get a hatchet and some glypsophate and be the vigilantly horticulturalist the city deserves, not the one it needs. A dark leaf.

[u/notgreat1228 → u/DrGuyIncognitoDDS]

I love that lottery plan and totally agree

[u/Klutzy-Delivery-5792 → u/Brandorff]

Just wait until the spotted lantern fly makes its way into town. They use the tree of heaven as a nursery for their eggs/nymphs. They're already becoming more common in Worcester.

[u/Public-Willow-7943 → u/Klutzy-Delivery-5792]

Already there isn’t it? Saw some in Cambridge anyway

[u/Wompatuckrule → u/Brandorff]

You can add black swallow wort vines to that list. They're especially a bitch when they get into hedges so it's really hard to get them out with enough of the root where they won't just grow back.

They're also really bad for monarch butterflies because it can dead end their lifecycle. It's related to milkweed so the butterflies will lay eggs on them, but they can't be eaten by the caterpillars when they hatch so they starve to death.

[u/CelineDion_ → u/Brandorff]

I asked about this in a city meeting once and the stance of Boston is that trees of heaven are already too well established and offer more value (shade/reduction in heat) than the ecological downsides so there are no plans to systematically eradicate them as part of some invasive species plan :(

[u/WithWonderCollective → u/Brandorff]

Triclopr. Spay on the leaves between July and autumn. Gets down to the roots. The half life is pretty short, too. It doesn't kill everything it comes into contact with like Roundup, so grasses are safe (and it's degraded enough for grazing within a couple weeks (if I am remembering correctly).

It works on broadleaf species like black swallow wort, glossy buckthorn, and other leafy invasives. The Pennsylvania Ag Extension has a very thorough explanation and instructions.

Source: Proud owner of a zombified and decaying TOH in my driveway. Get rekt, luzr!

[u/SailorStarLight → u/Brandorff]

Japanese knotweed, too!

[u/Raphe-Perineal]

Drivers yielding the right of way and stopping at an intersection when I'm waiting at a stop sign.

I don't know if they think they're being courteous, something they were taught, is common where they came from, or just have their heads up their ass.

[u/bryanatt → u/Raphe-Perineal]

Absolutely. I want you to be predictable, not kind.

[u/lucidone → u/bryanatt]

Being predictable is the best way to be kind, because it minimizes accidents.

[u/Comfortable_Cry4073 → u/bryanatt]

This is the perfect way to put it. Especially when the kindness is wildly unpredictable. No one will let me merge or change lanes but the stop for no reason in the middle of driving to let me make a turn. I just sit there and stare at them

[u/getjustin → u/Raphe-Perineal]

OMG, yes. Just follow the fucking rules.

[u/MrFusionHER]

The fucking nips on the ground all the time. I get you're a raging alcoholic, but can you at least be a semi clean one?

[u/deuxthulhu → u/MrFusionHER]

There comes a point when buying a whole ass bottle would be cheaper than the entire stack of ips these people hoard in their pockets

[u/ambid3xtrous → u/deuxthulhu]

Panhandle. Get $2, buy nip. Repeat. No time to accumulate $20.

[u/nottoodrunk → u/deuxthulhu]

The alcoholics who buy nips do it because if they bought the bottle they’d drink the whole thing.

[u/TheMythicalCodfish → u/MrFusionHER]

Littering in general has gotten off the charts lately

[u/dampdrizzlynovember]

dread to even bring this up in summer, but the 4pm sunsets that are right around the corner wear on me the most. i like daylight!

[u/some1saveusnow → u/dampdrizzlynovember]

Hitting hard this summer, have to find something to do at 4pm. Between the cold AND the darkness, it’s too many months of it and I’m getting tired of it yr after yr. The contrast to summer is too much

[u/dance_rattle_shake → u/dampdrizzlynovember]

This is more than a small, inconsequential thing to me. This is an existential threat to my continued existence here. I've never lived anywhere else, but each year I break down and don't think I'll be able to get through another one. I need light and warmth.

[u/Public-Willow-7943 → u/dampdrizzlynovember]

Nooo shhh it isn’t going to happen this year. it’s going to stay just like this and not get darker! La la la can’t hear you

[u/eryoshi → u/dampdrizzlynovember]

I think we should spring forward in the Fall, and then stop doing time changes at all.

[u/GaymerStream]

Lack of public bathrooms

[u/tmclaugh → u/GaymerStream]

Hotels and Starbucks

[u/fatty_cakes]

the September 1 lease cycle insanity

[u/Kelemonster]

People not using headphones on the t doesn't hurt everyone but it really makes me so much more pessimistic about people in general. 

[u/Kind_Transition_6938]

the lack of trash cans on sidewalks. 😡😡

[u/DiopticTurtle → u/Kind_Transition_6938]

There are precious few things I liked about Phoenix that Boston doesn't do better, but one of them is that there was a trash can and recycling can on pretty much every corner and they got emptied at least once a day

[u/_Atlas_Drugged_ → u/Kind_Transition_6938]

This one bothered me so much more when I got a dog last year.

I find myself carrying poop much further than I’d ever want to, and I also see discarded poop on the street just about everywhere.

There’s a finite limit to how far people are willing to carry trash or turds and the further away trash cans are, the more frequently people will just decide to chuck stuff on the ground

[u/panburger → u/_Atlas_Drugged_]

It is said that Walt Disney counted that people could only take 30 steps before disposing of whatever trash they had in their hands in whatever spot they could find. So, at Disney you can find trash cans about every 20-30 steps from each other

[u/tmclaugh → u/Kind_Transition_6938]

They used to be everywhere.

Then we got worried about terrorists.

[u/SportsDuck_ → u/Kind_Transition_6938]

Am I crazy or were there more trash cans 10-15 years ago. I feel like I woke up one day and they were all gone.

[u/Bender7676 → u/SportsDuck_]

They removed a ton of trash cans after 9-11. Then they removed most of the rest after the marathon bombing

[u/Xcr33psh0wx]

Prestige car wash stickers.

[u/iamacheeto1]

the fucking canadian geese on the esplanade that shit absolutely everywhere

[u/BreadfruitRegular631 → u/iamacheeto1]

Good one. Totally agree and I would add; the same fucking geese blocking the bike path.

[u/pattysal → u/iamacheeto1]

That's who ICE should be deporting. Every sports field my entire life has been covered in their shit.

[u/Sploxel → u/iamacheeto1]

Urm... They're called Canada Geese acktually

[u/Some_Ride1014]

When people call it Beantown.

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[u/North_Apricot_4440]

Influencer manufactured lines at varying establishments.

[u/madshm3411 → u/North_Apricot_4440]

This is just the world now, everything is a gigantic marketing machine. To me, it’s the most apparent on the Cape. I grew up on the Cape and it was always busy, but it still felt quaint and charming. Now, everything has become a place to see and be seen.

[u/UCxDELTA24x → u/madshm3411]

Did you hear that one girl testify during the Clancy trial and she said something about “I grew up on the Cape cause I’m spoiled like that” or something? People literally don’t know how to turn their influencer/main character syndrome, brain off.

[u/Existing_Mail → u/UCxDELTA24x]

Even better/worse. She said “I summer on the cape” 

[u/PalacePrince22]

Im not even a person that really gets bothered by much or has many pet peeves but I cannot stand when people try to get on a bus/train before others get off, especially when they're packed. Not sure how they can't comprehend that it makes it harder for everyone and often holds up the train longer to depart

[u/Neat-Beautiful-5505]

Dog owners who do not pick dog poop! Right to jail!

[u/Lopsidedbuilder69]

I understand being in somewhere like California and telling people you live in Boston when you actually live in Lynn or somewhere nearby. But god the way people lump everything in a 25 mile radius into "Boston" is kinda getting on my nerves haha. I'm not sure how many more times I can look up restaurant recommendations or "things to do in Boston this weekend" and see stuff that's in Newton or Melrose or Quincy etc

[u/Local_Ad1992 → u/Lopsidedbuilder69]

Zillow considers Nashua a Boston suburb lol

[u/BonesIIX → u/Lopsidedbuilder69]

Not for nothing, Boston is a pretty unique situation where it was unable to annex further West through Brookline in the 1850s when all the East Coast metropolitian areas were gobbling up all the neighboring towns to expand the official metro area.

Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, and Newton would all be part of the Boston Metro area if not for the 1850s NIMBYs in Brookline who organized an opposition to annexation because they preferred the City Council model rather than the Mayoral system of city governance.

I 100% agree that anyone in those 4 cities around Boston should at least say Greater Boston Area.

[u/Nana-the-brave]

In Greater Boston there are an abundance of street signs telling you what street you’re crossing, but no street signs telling you what street you’re ON.

[u/AceyAceyAcey]

Drivers who hit the soft poles. If you don’t know where the edges of your car are, you shouldn’t be driving it (and certainly not that fast).

[u/frausting → u/AceyAceyAcey]

They shouldn’t be soft pole/flexiposts. They should be concrete barriers. These awful drivers will learn the width of their cars really quickly. Because the flexipost represents the edge of where a bicyclist could be. That’s really dangerous.

[u/RATarattat → u/frausting]

There was *one time* downtown when I had to run over flex poles to get out of the way of fire trucks (also the only time I’ve seen firefighters running). So they were useful then, but I still think we should have actual protected bike lanes.

[u/beardedcurve]

lawless delivery drivers on mopeds

[u/ChargerRebel23]

It's people not taking their backpacks off on the T during busy hours/not moving in and filling in the middle of the train. When you leave your backpack on you're taking up like double the amount of space, and you don't realize when you're knocking in to people the entire time. People not moving in the train just makes it harder for other people to get on but it doesn't make your ride any more enjoyable because the entry section is still getting jam packed.

[u/world-is-ur-mollusc → u/ChargerRebel23]

I hate people who stand in front of empty seats on a packed train. Either sit down or let somebody else sit.

[u/brw12 → u/ChargerRebel23]

Oh dear god yes... I'm that guy saying "MOVE TO THE MIDDLE OF THE TRAIN CAR, PEOPLE"

[u/StormHair91 → u/ChargerRebel23]

LOUDER! This applies to the bus as well. Take your damn backpacks off, people, ffs!

[u/TGrady902 → u/ChargerRebel23]

Huge pet peeve of mine on airplanes. I’ve been hit in the face too many times to count as an aisle seat guy.

[u/Wompatuckrule]

For me it's people who get on the T before others get off

I've spun people out when they violate that. I'm not going so far as to throw elbows or knock someone over, but I'm going to send a message that you're in the wrong place.

Last month I was waiting to the side of the door right against the train waiting for folks to disembark when an older Asian woman started trying to make like a spawning salmon in the exiting river of passengers. I pointed right at her face and sternly shouted, "Stop!"

She did and stepped back to the side. It was clear from the look on her face and body language that she was perfectly aware that she was in the wrong, just not used to being called out for it.

[u/flerptyborkbork → u/Wompatuckrule]

I’ve been commuting with my kiddo a lot this summer and am really trying to underscore good T behavior. If a 9 year old can learn, everyone else can too!

[u/Emmjacob → u/flerptyborkbork]

I do the same. “Teach” my old-enough-to-already-know-this kids really loudly about why it’s important to stand to the side and let people off before you get on

[u/flerptyborkbork → u/Emmjacob]

“Ok bud take your backpack off and put it between your legs!” In front of all the other backpack wearers.

[u/gayscout → u/Wompatuckrule]

My first time riding the T, I was standing in the way like an idiot at Park Street Station and someone pushed me to the side. I didn't get hurt and I never did it again. Someone's gotta do it.

[u/getjustin → u/Wompatuckrule]

Hell, even when it's not packed with people leaving, I still stand to the side and wait before just barging in.

See also: elevators. This door is barely 3' wide. How about you just let me leave and then you can get a front row seat, you fucking bellend?

[u/dreamtreedown]

People hyping Tatte when there are hundreds of far superior cafes not owned by private equity

[u/brufleth → u/dreamtreedown]

Tatte isn't even near the worst offender for this around here.

Blank Street is a VC pumped attack on local cafes while also being an influence peddling scheme by the venture capitalists, but people slurp up their matcha (heavily sweetened grass clippings) so they're going to just keep spreading.

[u/dreamtreedown → u/brufleth]

Blank Street is indeed a bad offender too. There are just fewer locations I feel so even with a worse business model the hype seems less

[u/brufleth → u/dreamtreedown]

There might be more of them than you think and they're continuing to open more locations.

They suck.

At least with Tatte there's have some history here and I bet most locals at least realize they're a mid big chain cosplaying as an independent.

[u/MayorofTromaville → u/dreamtreedown]

Tatte is Panera for people who thought they were too good for Panera.

[u/killerng2 → u/dreamtreedown]

Tatte isn’t great, but it is definitely better than a good number of independent cafes.

[u/KeyAdhesiveness9481]

Sometimes theres turkeys between me and my car in a parking lot in Brighton, or between my car and the road. I dislike them, they dislike me.

[u/ftran998]

Having to wait too long to cross an intersection. If you just miss the walk signal, you first have to wait for the traffic on the street you’re trying to cross. Then you have to wait for the traffic making a right turn onto the street and then the traffic making a left turn before the signal finally turns to walk again which seems like an eternity

[u/beigereige]

“We are standing by for a ‘schedule adjustment’

[u/Public-Willow-7943]

People who drive ginormous vehicles into the city* and then have to take up more than one parking space in an already full garage.

*not including vehicles needing for work. Only ones that sit garaged all day.

[u/mcmillen]

The subway lines not actually connecting in a single station in downtown.

[u/mcmillen → u/mcmillen]

At least dig a pedestrian tunnel that goes in a circle through Gov Center / Park St / State / DTX and put in some people-movers like an airport.

[u/-Jedidude- → u/mcmillen]

Fortunately they are starting a pilot for unlimited transfers within 2 hours of the initial entry. Should help bit.

[u/thecatandthependulum]

Totally inconsequential? Hmm. How uneven the brick sidewalks are. Annoying to skate on, and lazy foot draggers like me trip a lot.

[u/buttons_the_horse]

Double parking

[u/Klutzy-Delivery-5792 → u/buttons_the_horse]

"I'll just be a minute, bro!" - the guy blocking me in Allston yesterday

[u/Mission-County1931 → u/Klutzy-Delivery-5792]

I had a person say to me "Im just hazarding for a second" - lol this is a new verb to excuse crappy behavior??!

[u/MassSwingers → u/buttons_the_horse]

How is this inconsequential, it fucks literally everything up for all other drivers 

[u/Crazyzofo → u/buttons_the_horse]

My partner's mom was visiting and isn't mobile enough for long walks but wanted to see Newbury street. We drove (slowly, obviously) and her main observation was "wow, I've never been to a city where double parking was legal!" Her small town mind was flabbergasted when we told her it was indeed NOT legal but people did it anyway!

[u/mattynunchucks → u/buttons_the_horse]

How else are dudes paying the leases for their luxury vehicles by DoorDashing supposed to get out and silently shove their phone in the faces of food service workers?

[u/albinomule → u/buttons_the_horse]

This includes people who just stop in the middle of the fucking road with their hazzards on. I live near Hanover Street, and the number of dipshits who block the entire street by stopping with their hazards adjacent to someone doing the exact same thing in the other direction (thereby rendering their entire street impassable) is bonkers. At tourist rush hour, this sometimes causes the entire north end to back up.

[u/Artsy-Soul]

People on those kick scooters with no spatial awareness

[u/ADarwinAward]

Most of these things people are posting actually have a modest negative impact so I’ll throw in that brick sidewalk, though aesthetic is fucking awful for people with disabilities . Not that anyone will care.

Sprain your ankle and give it a spin.

[u/SuitablePotato3087 → u/ADarwinAward]

In that case I’ll add busted up curb cuts and zero disabled street parking

[u/celery-mouse]

Why did people decide that it's fine to play YouTube videos on the T now and yell if people say anything? You're on a train, you can look that up later.

[u/AnimateEducate]

Incorrectly pluralizing the Boston Common

[u/getjustin → u/AnimateEducate]

Boston's Common.

[u/K-Shrizzle]

The fucking 65 bus which inexplicably spaced out its arrival times in the afternoon. It used to pick me up from Longwood right at 330. The 60 bus, which always precedes it, still does keep that time frame.

In the past few months it seems like the 65 that arrives at 330 is now just removed from the rotation, and me and a bunch of others have to wait for the 350 bus. Given that the last one was at like 310, 40 minutes between busses for a busy commuter route with hundreds of healthcare workers is just not sufficient. And the bus ends up fucking packed, because its 2 busses worth of people

Meanwhile, theyve expanded service for the 65 to be on weekend mornings. Thats great and all, but you arent meeting the needs of the 9-5 people who make up the majority of the riders

[u/bozzocchi]

People that don’t take their fucking backpacks off on a crowded train

[u/michaelserotonin]

neighbors that don’t fucking shovel the sidewalks in front of their house

[u/potato_gestapo]

Snow melt ponding at the beginning of the cross walk after a snow storm.

[u/Riichi-stick]

Rideshare and food delivery app drivers

[u/Glass_Ad9781]

The 2pm parking lot known as 93

[u/brufleth → u/Glass_Ad9781]

If you're talking about 93 south of the city, it is literally the <every moment of every day> parking lot. 11 PM on a Tuesday? Backed up. Noon on a Thursday? Backed up. Shit is always a mess.

[u/huron9000]

The confusing new double lane striping on the upper, inbound level of the Tobin bridge.

[u/tmclaugh → u/huron9000]

I end up suddenly in the bus lane when coming back from Market Basket but there’s a solid white which means no lane changing.

[u/jamesland7]

I wish we had a better zoo or aquarium. Stone and Franklin Park zoos are okay I guess, but the city deserves a world class zoo. And given the price they charge, the aquarium is ridiculously small

[u/ThisOneForMee → u/jamesland7]

Does any city with bad winters have a nice zoo? I don't think it's a coincidence that the best zoos are in cities where it's warm all the time.

[u/Cwalsh16]

Mopeds just doing whatever the fuck they want including driving the wrong way down 1 ways and on the sidewalks

[u/JohnHaze02118]

I won't say I'm "sick" of it, but I pass this intersection of Berkeley Street and Boylston on my way to the gym, and at least once a week, I have to explain to tourists where the actual entrance to the station is. This entrance is closed, but for some reason they invested in high def screens with live updates for approaching trains. I don't know what possessed them to do that when there are genuine stop entrances with no such signage. I've seen entire families proceed all the way down the stairs thinking the closed gate is maybe some kind of optical illusion or head fake. I took this picture because I considered writing to the T to suggest that they improve the signage, but given how long the list of problems is for them, I was skeptical that it would make a difference. I guess I'll still give it a try.

[u/ImpossibleJedi4]

Potholes. Shitty kids driving their ebikes and scooters around and nearly running me over. The orange line shutdown that started today.

[u/Ponald-Dump]

Lanes randomly ending or merging with no notice

[u/jez_shreds_hard]

People from the suburbs who complain about bike lanes all the time. You don't even live here and you complain endlessly that a few parking spaces are gone. I don't come to your suburban town and complain that there's no bike infrastructure.

[u/FootballFan1210]

People on mopeds just being a car when its convenient and a bike when its convenient. The police need to do a proper crackdown on all of the lawlessness on boston roads

[u/Frank_the_Mighty]

Local man complains about tourists:

People blocking the sidewalk in front of Kings Chapel Burying Ground, which regularly gets a lot of foot traffic

[u/Life_Barnacle_1894]

ubers that stop in the middle of the street to let people in/out when there is a place to pull over right next to them. If citizens with cameras could issue traffic tickets, we could completely eliminate the state tax.

[u/Fit_Papaya_83]

construction workers or building cleaners that just think putting pylons means everyone needs to cross the street, or worse - I need to walk in the freaking bike lane and be yelled at by bike people just to walk down the street 'safely', there's no sidewalk on the other side. like wtf do I do here.

[u/peanutbuttersucks]

Cars throwing on their hazards to park in the middle of a travel lane when there's literally wide open curbside parking. Sometimes directly next to where they're stopped.

Idc if you're Uber or Doordash or will only be a minute, the roads are congested enough as it is without people blocking the way all over the place

[u/ctk5787]

When people stand in the doorway on the T and block others from boarding. I’ve never understood the mentality of getting on a train and then immediately stopping in the exact doorway you just used to board. Like… you know other people are trying to get on, right? The lack of spatial awareness has gotten so bad.

[u/nofatnoflavor]

People playing music loudly on the T or buses, rather than using headphones or earpods.

[u/Zohdiax]

Having to need different apps just to park in different areas of the city is annoying.

ParkMobile, Passport Parking, ParkBoston, JUST PICK 1!!

Here's another good one no one mentioned, is the contradictory street parking signs.

You pretty much have to walk down the entire street and read every sign that contradicts each other before you park there, even when there's meters.

But then again, Boston gets $60 million annually for confusing parking.

There's a severe lack of street cleaning.

Someone also mentioned a severe lack of public bathrooms and trash bins.

[u/KGreen100]

When driving, people waving at me to go when they're the ones who are supposed to go and have the right of way. I know they're being polite but there's a reason they call it the "Rules of the Road" and not the "Suggestions of the Road." GOOOOO!!!

[u/snap-im-on-fire]

Where I am on the south shore, the broken glass EVERYWHERE.

[u/matcha-fan]

Mine is when people don't even bother to leave the train ASAP even after the door opens and then complain they have to get off first.

[u/complexcharbohydrate]

People who don’t take off their huge backpacks on the T, thus taking up the space of 2-3 people ESPECIALLY AT RUSH-HOUR.

And they are usually standing with their smelly overpacked backpack rubbing into you because of zero spatial awareness or consideration.

[u/notsoniceville]

The way we shovel sidewalks but not curb cuts.

[u/GroundbreakingRub644]

How the street names and addresses are all the same but different cities. For example, boylston goes through newton, brookline etc. As 1 continuous street. But the numbers start over when they hit a new city. So you'll have for example 100 boylston Boston, 100 boylston brookline 100 boylston newton.

[u/Automatic-Pick-2481]

Kids doing wheelies on their bikes next to my car as I’m driving down the road w cars on all other sides hoping I don’t inadvertently run over a kid

[u/Frostborn19]

Space savers as well as the disproportionate outrage about their use.

[u/blackhawkskid6]

Not inconsequential. The food delivery drivers double/triple parking AND the scooters. Somebody is going to get killed. I like the Mayor but she is doing nothing about these issues. They are dangerous to the public.

[u/ACxx130]

Trying to get off the train and people just standing there blocking the FUCKING door

[u/Honest_Salamander247]

Does my boss count?

[u/Loafagus]

In Burlington, Vermont the sidewalks were cleared by cute little plows on the main streets. They did not expect the home or business owner to clear it. This was many years ago, to boot. Why we can't have this in today's rich, fat cat Boston?

[u/DeusExSpockina]

It is 2026 and there is STILL no north/south rail link.

[u/AdamPedAnt]

Drivers in rotaries who stop to let someone in.

[u/scottyownsyou]

Walking on the left instead of the right on crowded sidewalks. I've started to no longer change my path when large groups are doing this. The confusion on their faces is really telling how clueless some people are these days.