Thank you to Spencer Buell of The Boston Globe for calling attention to this issue! I do want to be clear: the end goal isn't calling out; the goal is to have this stop happening. Parking in bike lanes is so prevalent if everyone stopped today, the Boston Bike Blockers submission backlog would still have enough photos to post every day through the end of the year!
My hope, as Spencer said, is increased awareness of the problem gets city officials, recurring offender businesses, and individual drivers to make different decisions. Part of that is redesigning streets with separated bike lanes; part of that is better signage directing people to proper parking; part of that is worker protections for rideshare and delivery drivers who feel they risk their jobs if they take an extra 30 seconds to park; and part of that is just changing the perception that everywhere is free space for drivers to take as they please.
As we were reminded just in the past week, cyclists get killed on these streets. If we can make progress on those fronts, it will help protect cyclists from not only bike lane blockers, but many ways drivers endanger micromobility users that aren't so easily photographed.
Cyclists who pedal around Greater Boston are accustomed to seeing cars, trucks, and everything else on wheels hogging the bike lanes.