I'm missing something here. How did you get the dataset for this? And that too, in real-time?
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Wonders why shelves are empty when delivery drivers can't park their trucks anywhere uh don't big shops usually have truck ports?
Safeway? Sure. Mom-and-Pops? Not usually. How are small restaurants going to get their ingredients delivered if delivery trucks can’t park? Ok maybe in some locations they can park a few blocks away and deliver with hand trucks —but then they risk taking much more time to deliver and going back to a broken-in truck or van.
In Seattle there are 3-minute load/unload areas in the commercial pockets. This is a solvable problem. It’s not even hard.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
One, yes, the separate charge of civil tax fraud is not tax evasion and is not a crime. Two, the IRS is a civil agency. It can only bring civil actions, even against alleged crimes. The DOJ, on the other hand, takes criminal referrals. (We tend to see civil siblings to criminal counterparts across our body of law.) Going back to OP’s question, when people refer to a high-crime neighbourhood, they aren’t talking about…
Yeah, that's my point. It's not a neutral point of view. Unlawfully operating cars is the most widespread and impactful behavior in SF, followed by wage theft, tax fraud, and tenant harassment. And all the other stuff that gets discussed as "crime" is in 4th place or lower.
> Unlawfully operating cars is the most widespread and impactful behavior in SF
If you think you can convince your fellow citizens to criminalise parking tickets, go for it. I doubt it has that much support. (But I don’t doubt that confidently!)
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#134I did a fascinating analysis of SFMTA data a few years back. They posted a public list of names and license plates [1] that they refuse to take down, despite many emails from me over the years. I found a particular license plate that belonged to a plumber with an impeccable 5 star reputation on Yelp, whose business in SF was effectively ended by street sweeping fines. He accidentally paid the same ticket twice, which…
I'm curious, how did his name being on this list significantly affect his business? I live in a different country and I can't imagine checking the "traffic fine registry PDF on a random government website" when considering which plumber to hire. I don't doubt that this caused him problems, I'm just trying to understand how.
It caused him problems because he didn't think the law applied to him, and got charged a lot of fines due to those violations.
Incurring higher costs than revenue is a common cause of business failures.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is now illegal in some states
It's illegal in California but in San Francisco official policy is to not enforce this law. If there's no red paint on the curb, they won't ticket you. This is official policy: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-p...
Portland does the same thing since most blocks in the older parts of town are 200 feet. Reserving 20 feet at either end would take away a huge chunk of street parking in residential areas built before driveways were common.
It's also why our light rail trains can only be two cars long.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
It makes sense. It was ridiculous that they were originally proposing ticketing people without there being signage that it was illegal to park there. They need to just paint the curbs.
The law has been widely communicated. You could argue that people cannot be expected to carry tape measures with them, because their glove compartments are too small. But the difficulty of judging the distance from the intersection is a factor in a minority of cases. SFMTA could have chosen to enforce the law but allow a tolerance of 5 feet. That would start providing safety benefits earlier without surprising any dr…
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#139> $158 > 99 Grove St > 10:43 AM • Truck > Blocking bike lane Thank you, Officer 0227!
Grove Street, home
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#140I'm missing something here. How did you get the dataset for this? And that too, in real-time?
Explained here: https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/