BOSTON (AP) — Bostonians have another reason to be steamed about this winter of epic snow: The city is starting to remove the lawn chairs, milk crates, orange cones and other stuff that people set out on the street to reserve the parking spaces they've dug out.

Garbage haulers began collecting the "space savers" Monday after Mayor Marty Walsh declared an end to the longstanding tradition — at least until the next major storm.

Some fear that without the space savers, neighbor is going to turn against neighbor.

Space savers are generally allowed up to 48 hours after a storm, but many items have been on the streets for over a month, as Boston got clobbered with more than 8 feet of snow.

In Boston and in other snowy cities, the rule in many neighborhoods is: If you dig it out, it's yours. Drivers who violate that etiquette and cast aside the space savers might return to find their car vandalized.