Parking in Boston Gets More Expensive - and More Tipsy?

A while back, we joined the Globe in recommending Winthrop Square Garage as a place to park if you are crazy or desperate enough to drive downtown.

Thinking they were missing a potential source of revenue, the city has decided to raise the rates when it takes over on June 30.

This past Saturday, the Globe published a piece on which garages seemed to justify their high rates. Normal people just want a place to park their car, but some garages in this city are nicer than most apartments.

The piece is helpful because it lists rates, and you can compare garages in several spots. Boston Common Garage is the clear winner, although we say that reluctantly in case they decide to jack up the rates.

But a line in the piece about One Post Office Square Garage absolutely flabbergasted us: "The low ceilings can be intimidating to SUV drivers -- watch out for those ski and kayak racks, Dad! -- but the garage's individually numbered parking spaces make auto retrieval a breeze, particularly when you've had one too many Cosmopolitans and are headed home to Wellesley, not quite sure how to find the Mass. Pike."

We'd like to add a minor footnote to this statement: If you're so blotto that you can't find your car, then maybe you shouldn't be driving!

Image of a Cosmopolitian from Flickr user Rick.