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Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by gregschlom »

Swizec wrote: post #209
kami8845 wrote: post #59

Amazing to see the scale of it. As a piece of feedback my assumption is that different officers are assigned to different areas and so since street sweeping is either the first and third or second and fourth week of the month for most residential areas, this will allow different officers to float to the top in different weeks. Having at least a 2 week lookback for the leaderboard is probably best. Otherwise great wor…

> street sweeping is either the first and third or second and fourth week of the month for most residential areas On my block we get it 2x/week. I've never seen a street sweeper come by and the street is always dirty, but I sure have gotten tickets for leaving my vehicle out front overnight on the wrong day.

As far as I know you only get a ticket if you're actually parked there when the sweeper comes by. There's a parking cop car following the sweeper and ticketing the cars. You're allowed to re-park in the street after the sweeper has done its job, even if it's still technically street sweeping time.

So if you've got a ticket, there almost certainly was a sweeper that came by at that time.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by bahmboo »

andrepd wrote: post #114
bahmboo wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where should the delivery trucks park if there is no infrastructure for them and the public has an ever increasing appetite for delivered products? Try to think about it from the delivery drivers point of view and their safety. The roads are not any one users exclusive resource. We all pay for them and they must be shared.

Bike lanes reduce the number of cars on the road and therefore make it easier for vehicles that are actually necessary (delivery, work, emergency, etc) to travel and park, not harder. So do all viable alternatives to driving. That in 2025 people still unironically say "just one more lane bro, and we'll solve traffic" is almost unbelievable.

Delivery vehicles reduce the number of cars on the road and therefore make it easier for bicycles to negotiate the roads. One delivery vehicle can easily replace dozens of car trips.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by truncate »

woah wrote: post #236
truncate wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> A tow truck will be dispatched in conjunction with the text message notification and could be there in as few as five minutes. If only they operate in good faith, and that is something I'd highly doubt given its SFMTA. As in they could call tow truck ahead of time, so that its almost unlikely the person will be able to get to their car in time.

Why should roads, walkways, and construction sites be blocked just to let someone have more time to avoid a ticket? I imagine the text goes out from SF's servers simultaneously with the tow truck summons. It's a fair shot for both.

I totally agree with you on that, but then why have this program at first place then?

I'm just saying that given its SFMTA -- if the tow truck will take say 30 min, they will probably try to wait and issue the ticket later right before tow truck can arrive so that they can get the fines. SFMTA relies heavily on fining people for their revenue and hence incentivized to not act on good faith here. Obviously, it an accusation based on anecdotes and personal experience and by no means an evidence, and I may very well be wrong, but overall I've very very little faith in SFMTA.

>> I imagine the text goes out from SF's servers simultaneously with the tow truck. These systems are often old. I wouldn't assume anything here.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by Aloisius »

kenmacd wrote: post #71

+11 and +4 seem check-digit-y From the limited dataset it looks the last digit comes from: last digit = ( + 2) mod 7

It is a check digit, but it's just: n % 7.

So ticket 98494660 has citation #984,946,605

Ticket 98494661 will have citation #984,946,616

(The example of the pattern mistakenly starts with an citation number #984,946,606 which they said does not exist, rather than #984,946,605 which is the one shown in the image)

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by smegma2 »

lavela wrote: post #241

Great implementation but reading the comments I wonder if there is really no sense of the streets as a commons you should use responsibly at all in the US. Not that I am not annoyed by parking tickets, but I am also thankful for the enforcement when I use any means of moving through the city other than a car and at least where I live parking violations are really under-enforced. Maybe that's the difference in San Fra…

I agree with the sentiment but I want to point out that a car is not essential for most people living in SF, although many people outside the city think this. Around 35% of households don’t have a car: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-docume...

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by Arch-TK »

primitivesuave wrote: post #177
Arch-TK wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I should have clarified - I only found his business through that list because I noticed his vanity license plate HPPYPPS, which corresponded to a business named Happy Pipes Plumbing which I subsequently found on Yelp. Also, I found out about his van getting towed because I scraped towing records from Autoreturn (the city's main towing provider - lots of corruption around that deal). Autoreturn's website at the time h…

Thanks for clarifying! So basically his van kept getting towed and he kept losing business as a result? Presumably it also cost him to recover his vehicle. So in summary, if you got on this list you're just permanently screwed in SF? And you can get on this list by paying a fine twice by accident?

> "?towid=1"

Funnily, incrementing that number in the country I live in would itself be a crime. If the company I did this to found out, they could probably take me to court and win.

A wonderful world we live in. :)

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by varenc »

site now offline:

> In rare lightning speed, the SF government changed their site within hours of this site going live. I can't get data from it anymore.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

throwaway93626 wrote: post #72
jakelazaroff wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The loserboard I'd be interested in is which license plates consistently receive the most tickets.

I'd guess the top spots are just super wealthy people who figure that at their "hourly rate", paying for parking is basically more costly than just eating the tickets. Like if someone's time is worth $10k+/hour, the parking tickets are basically just premium parking fees that are still "cheaper" than spending even a minute dealing with payment... Let your assistant pay whatever tickets you get in the mail instead.

Having the ticket price linked to their income would immediately make the game fair. If you earn 10k/h and you need to pay a 100k ticket you will be more careful.

A millionaire in Finland got a 120k€ ticket for speeding a bit over the limit (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-busine...). IIRC the CFO of Nokia had a similar experience.

Re: Find SF parking cops

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Post by nick_ »

lavela wrote: post #241

Great implementation but reading the comments I wonder if there is really no sense of the streets as a commons you should use responsibly at all in the US. Not that I am not annoyed by parking tickets, but I am also thankful for the enforcement when I use any means of moving through the city other than a car and at least where I live parking violations are really under-enforced. Maybe that's the difference in San Fra…

Nope, same in Toronto. Same everywhere I've been. Drivers all mentally turn into teenagers when it comes to anything to do with driving/parking. I'm very pro traffic and parking enforcement.
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