Michelle Wu truly became mayor of Boston today: She announced the continuation of the snow-emergency space-saving rule

Mayor Wu held her first yearly winter-preparedness property conference astatine the metropolis brackish heap and public-works gait connected Frontage Road today, wherever she announced, among different things, the continuation of Boston's accepted space-saving rule: Outside of the South End, erstwhile a snowfall emergency's announced, you tin prevention a thoroughfare parking abstraction for up to 48 hours aft the exigency has been declared over.

In the South End, of course, abstraction savers are ne'er allowed, and that regularisation volition stay successful effect this wintertime arsenic well, assuming we get immoderate snowfall worthy declaring an exigency over.

At the accepted Frontage Road kickoff to the wintertime season, started by her predecessor, Marty Walsh, Wu said the metropolis has 40,000 tons of brackish acceptable to spray each implicit metropolis streets up of immoderate wintertime storms, on with 164 metropolis trucks acceptable to bash snowfall conflict - on with contracts to bring respective 100 much backstage trucks to the fight. Public Works besides has specialized instrumentality to wide snowfall from the city's dedicated motorcycle lanes.

As mayors gone by person done, Wu besides reminded spot owners they person to wide the sidewalks successful beforehand of their properties wrong 3 hours aft the extremity of snowfall - oregon 3 hours aft sunrise for those overnight nor'easters and crystal storms - and they person to find immoderate spot to enactment shoveled snowfall different than successful the street.