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Boston Streetsweeper Needs an Upgrade

October 24th, 2007 · Comments

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I have a love-hate relationship with Boston Streetsweeper, the service at Boston.com where you enter in the street your car is parked on and receive emails the day before the street is scheduled to be swept.

Why isn’t this a Google Map that lets me drag my car from street to street? Why isn’t it a mobile application? I sent a long and detailed message when the folks behind Streetsweeper asked for ways to improve the service, and got nothing back. Is Boston.com in cahoots with the Boston Office of the Parking Clerk?

Someone needs to create the ultimate parking ticket fighting application and let it loose in Boston and other cities. Tying it into your GPS or OnStar would be the holy grail, unless they figure out how to make your Lexis find a new spot, after all, it can park itself already.

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