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Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by adolph »

whakim wrote: post #162
gboss wrote: post #101

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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.

Why? Having a driver's license is a privilege that requires you to study and know the rules of the road. The onus is on you to know the rules.

Do you have an rss feed of road rules piped into Anki cards or what?

Or just maybe "driver's license is a privilege that requires you to study and know the rules of the road" is a fallacious claim that rests on pedantic legal formalism and an impoverished sense of human psychology.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

godelski wrote: post #173
Dylan16807 wrote: post #157

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Waste of what resources? If anything I'd expect the sidewalk to be cheaper.

There's a difference between starting from scratch and modifying existing infrastructure

There is.

But the post saying it's a better method isn't suggesting extra labor to do modifications. That's useful just as pure knowledge, and also it can be applied into future designs or when parts of the road wear out.

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Post by creer »

ronsor wrote: post #81
primitivesuave wrote: post #62

I 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…

> street sweeping fines Why the hell does SF need to sweep the streets so much?

> Why the hell does SF need to sweep the streets so much?

It does not. All the way to street sweepers zooming down the street at full speed. All the way to NOT cleaning the street before a major event. All the way to ticketing people for a specific "street sweeping" time period but zooming down the middle of the street hours later when parked cars are back. San Francisco street and sidewalks are disgusting and it's their normal condition.

What it is, is a convenient way to write lots of tickets in not much time - as mentioned all over this discussion.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by barbazoo »

alexchantavy wrote: post #121

Oh wow this is from the same author as https://walzr.com/bop-spotter -- love these projects

Odd detail about the page, on the left it says "Audio feed courtesy of Orchestra" but the link goes to some dystopian panopticon kinda surveillance app.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by RyanOD »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #157
RyanOD wrote: post #149

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Yes, I've seen some of this. While it certainly helps, it seems like a waste of limited resources. Why can't some people just follow such a simple rule?

Waste of what resources? If anything I'd expect the sidewalk to be cheaper.

In Seattle, I've mostly seen approaches such as this as a modification. Though I see your point in a new construction situation.

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Post by rahimnathwani »

renewiltord wrote: post #147
tossandthrow wrote: post #143

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While I agree on this, the US is a bit special as having a car is considered mandatory. IMHO, that culture needs to be changed: better public transport and walkable cities. When that is established, then it is also easier to revoke the drivers privilege.

Having a car in SF is not mandatory. It's quite useful but you can live well without.

  you can live well without
Imagine you and your spouse both work full time, and you have 1-2 children. And your definition of 'living well' includes having those children learn to swim well, and do some sort of after-school sport, and also do math supplementation because SFUSD teaches math at a really slow pace.

I don't believe any of the above are outlier or unreasonable positions to have.

Yet a family in that situation would severely struggle to fit everything in if they had to rely solely on public transport to get between home, school and after-school activities.

(I grew up in London, where public transport is often faster than driving. In San Francisco, most of my car journeys would take 3-4 times as long by public transport.)

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Post by primitivesuave »

echoangle wrote: post #122
knowitnone3 wrote: post #100

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I don't understand or this makes no sense. If he paid the ticket twice, shouldn't SFTMA own him money? Why was it delinquent if he paid twice? Something does not add up in this story.

I think he got two tickets but paid one of them twice and forgot to pay the other one.

Just to confirm, this is what happened - he paid one twice, and therefore the other became delinquent. However, if you file a FOIA request with the SFMTA and do some basic analysis on how much is "owed per license plate", you will see that certain license plates have been allowed to accrue tens of thousands of dollars in parking fines with virtually no towing repercussions, going back as far as data is available (2013). Around 80-90% of these vehicles are rental cars, around 5-8% of them are commercial trucking companies which absorb the cost of 2 tickets per day, and this tiny 1% of license plates are effectively "lawless parkers" who drive high-end cars and accrue tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking fines every year.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by [deleted] »

Ancapistani wrote: post #150
dheera wrote: post #38

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I'm fine with paying the fee but (a) It should be automatic -- if they have the tech to enforce parking like a witch hunt, they should have the tech to just charge people for parking automatically just like Fastrak and everything else. Just have parking meters look for a Fastrak transponder and charge that account for parking, and also automatically send texts to the phone number and e-mail associated with the Fastra…

> (b) Parking signs are too goddamn hard to parse, that's the real problem. Product idea: a smartphone app that uses your GPS location to tell you how many tickets have been given at a specific location, how recently, and the day/time distribution. Then pair that with an AI model that's trained on the signage to be able to parse what it says, and I bet you could very accurately predict whether a given spot is at risk…

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