DC is great at giving tickets, but as of yesterday main roads in DC still weren't completely cleared of snow. They are inept at the stuff that counts.
Washington Gives $1.3M in Parking Fines During Snowstorm
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe consider that many people just can't act that fast. Some may not have even been in town. The average time from when people heard about the announcement until the first snow was falling was probably just about a couple of hours. I would also assume that the free or $1 garage parking was full just a couple hours after the announcement.
Why would you go out of town in the middle of winter and leave your car parked on a snow emergency route? You don't get to set up problems for yourself, then complain when those self-created problems have consequences. I don't understand why so many are eager to defend these people. If you can't move your car quickly, don't park it in a place where you might need to move it quickly. If you negligently leave your car…
Some of us do travel for a living and can be out of town for weeks on end. It does happen -- and where you're parked is an afterthought. You don't always get to pick which street you park on.
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#33And? Don't park in snow emergency routes during a historic blizzard.
The advisory said they issued 2,091 parking tickets in the first three hours of the mayor’s declaration. The tickets drew backlash from drivers who said they were unable to dig out their cars. Others said they did not feel comfortable driving in the snow, some because their cars were not properly equipped for it. 3 hours after the declaration, and for cars that could not reasonably be moved because of said emergency.…
3 hours after the declaration there was not a single flake of snow on the ground.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you go out of town in the middle of winter and leave your car parked on a snow emergency route? You don't get to set up problems for yourself, then complain when those self-created problems have consequences. I don't understand why so many are eager to defend these people. If you can't move your car quickly, don't park it in a place where you might need to move it quickly. If you negligently leave your car…
Some of us do travel for a living and can be out of town for weeks on end. It does happen -- and where you're parked is an afterthought. You don't always get to pick which street you park on.
Really, you just can't be bothered to think about whether your parking spot is a wise location to leave your car for several weeks? And further, that you can't even choose not to park on a snow emergency route?
Your car is probably the first or second most expensive thing you own. Take ten seconds to read the signs governing the legalities of where you store it. If you screw they up (it happens to all of us) then own the screwup.
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#35The snow emergency was announced on Thursday a full day before the snow arrived. The emergency then went into effect Friday morning and the snow did not start until around lunch time, several hours later. There was not a single flake of snow in the first couple hours when most of the tickets were issues. People who are saying they got tickets for being 'snowed in' are blatantly misrepresenting what happened. They wer…
Maybe consider that many people just can't act that fast. Some may not have even been in town. The average time from when people heard about the announcement until the first snow was falling was probably just about a couple of hours. I would also assume that the free or $1 garage parking was full just a couple hours after the announcement.
I'm on the West Coast. I knew about the snow predicted 36 hours before it hit.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The advisory said they issued 2,091 parking tickets in the first three hours of the mayor’s declaration. The tickets drew backlash from drivers who said they were unable to dig out their cars. Others said they did not feel comfortable driving in the snow, some because their cars were not properly equipped for it. 3 hours after the declaration, and for cars that could not reasonably be moved because of said emergency.…
3 hours after the declaration there was not a single flake of snow on the ground.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you go out of town in the middle of winter and leave your car parked on a snow emergency route? You don't get to set up problems for yourself, then complain when those self-created problems have consequences. I don't understand why so many are eager to defend these people. If you can't move your car quickly, don't park it in a place where you might need to move it quickly. If you negligently leave your car…
Some of us do travel for a living and can be out of town for weeks on end. It does happen -- and where you're parked is an afterthought. You don't always get to pick which street you park on.
If I was leaving town for several weeks (or even just the weekend) my very first thought would be "is this a good location to leave my car for the duration I'd be gone?" and it certainly wouldn't be an afterthought!
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you go out of town in the middle of winter and leave your car parked on a snow emergency route? You don't get to set up problems for yourself, then complain when those self-created problems have consequences. I don't understand why so many are eager to defend these people. If you can't move your car quickly, don't park it in a place where you might need to move it quickly. If you negligently leave your car…
Some of us do travel for a living and can be out of town for weeks on end. It does happen -- and where you're parked is an afterthought. You don't always get to pick which street you park on.
Not every city experiences the same logistical problems, and for a snowy city, I think it's quite reasonable to penalize people for parking in snow emergency routes. If Washington DC were such a place that didn't historically snow, I would sympathize with the fined.
The needs of some city residents to travel for weeks or months without thinking about where they are parked don't outweigh the needs of a snowy city to have emergency snow travel routes.
If you wanted to park some place and hope that it doesn't snow, that's both your loss and gain.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's generous. Do you also think the city should "work with" hotels to provide free housing for people during snow storms, or is your outpouring reserved only for automobiles?
If they declared your house was in an emergency route and you had to move for a few days then yes.
In your reasoning you do take into account the houses being immobile and automobiles - well... mobile?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you go out of town in the middle of winter and leave your car parked on a snow emergency route? You don't get to set up problems for yourself, then complain when those self-created problems have consequences. I don't understand why so many are eager to defend these people. If you can't move your car quickly, don't park it in a place where you might need to move it quickly. If you negligently leave your car…
Some of us do travel for a living and can be out of town for weeks on end. It does happen -- and where you're parked is an afterthought. You don't always get to pick which street you park on.
Yes actually you do get to pick which street you park on. Unless you have one of the new fangled diverless cars. If you are traveling in winter and could be home for weeks on end, don't leave for cat in a place where it might get towed.