See? The Feds park at meters all the live-long day, but they never pay nothing.
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Oh well.
Posts Tagged ‘meter maids’
Federal Workers Elect to Not Participate in San Francisco’s New “Market Pricing” Parking Scheme
Monday, April 16th, 2012Corvette Bummer: The SFPD is _Really_ Stepping Up Enforcement of the “Mandatory Turn at Sixth and Market” Rule
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Sometimes, you’ll see three cars pulled over at the same time. It’s safe to say, “The Grace Period is Now Over.”
Now, what kind of person ignores the giant signs on inbound Market telling them to Turn Right Only?
The kind of person who has a greater tendency to lack a driver license or insurance or registration or registration hardcopy or registration decal. Oh well.
So, that’s life on the Streets of San Francisco these days.
This tike was not happy, that’s for sure:
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What people tend to say to the SFPD is something like:
Well, how am I supposed to get to the Nordstrom?
The answer, involving the mention of Mission Street or Folsom, well that strikes our visitors as craaaaaazy.
So they conclude, if they hadn’t already, that it’s a hassle to drive about SoMA and Union Square and the FiDi.
Which it is.
And some of them vow to never come back.
Oh well.
If All of San Francisco Government Worked as Efficiently as Street-Cleaning-Day PCOs, Well…
Friday, August 5th, 2011…we wouldn’t have any debt and we’d run surpluses every year.
This is five minutes before two-hour no-parking-time, you know, for street sweeping. Do these streets look like they need a sweeping? Not to me.
But the Spice Must Flow, right? It’s harvest time, once again:
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There’s a chance that the owners of the cars parked here on Octavia might saunter (or run) up for a last-minute rescue, but usually you don’t see that.
It’s too bad that San Francisco government can’t “make money” by having an efficient transit network, you know, the way it “makes money” off of forgetful drivers on unnecessary weekly (or, I’m srsly, daily in some places) street sweeping.
This operation didn’t start out as a scam, back in the day, but it turned into one.*
Oh well.
*In this respect, it’s just like the neighborhood parking decal scheme.
Parking Ticket Bacchanalia: Remembering the Day Everybody Got a Cited
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Here’s Fulton betwixt Larkin and Hyde, on the day one productive San Francisco PCO issued 80 citations in a single morning.
That probably paid for three weeks of her salary, benefits and pension.
Who says PCO’s don’t “make money?”
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Transit First, baby!
You cite Cadillacs, Lincolns too/
Mercurys and Subaru
Oh No, Look Out DPT Parking Control Officers – You’re Being Watched! Announcing DPTWatch.com
Monday, March 28th, 2011DPTWatch.com is here. Use it to report wrongly-issued parking citations issued by the unpopular SFMTA. If you want.
Me, I don’t get parking tickets these days, but you, well, check it out why not?
If You Own a Garage and a BMW, Feel Free to Park on the Sidewalk in Front of Your House – DPT Doesn’t Care
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011See what happens when you build sidewalks wider than the Nina, the Pinta, and/or the Santa Maria? The people that own propertah nearby start to think that the wide wide sidewalk is owned by them.
So they park there.
And the SFMTA / DPT won’t do anything about it. Why? Because they’re afraid.
They’ll always say, “Just call us if there’s a problem.” But they don’t mean it. For some reason, the DPT is afraid to ticket cars that park on the sidewalks of Masonic and the Outer Sunset, places like that.
Oh well.
The Cancer of “Neighborhood Parking” Grows: How Do Residential Permits Relate to “Transit First?”
Friday, December 17th, 2010(Ooh, ooh, let me answer my own question, me first.)
Residential parking permits don’t relate to “Transit First” AT ALL.
However, the NIMBYs just looooooove them and the NIMBYs are highly motivated to protect what’s theirs and grab more, more, more.
Ever more NIMBYs of San Francisco say, “Ooh, us too!”
Such is the state of middle class welfare* in the 415, where you can vote your neighborhood into the program but you can’t vote yourself out – it’s not allowed.
Oh well.
*Or upper class. Writer Danielle Steel has/had 26 permits for 26 vehicles, or at least she used to. Apparently, it’s hard out here for a pimp, what with all the jealous hATrZs around:
“Although I do not normally respond to furors in the press which malign me unjustly…”
Uh, Danny honey, nobody said you caused “the parking crisis.” But back in the day, the Chronicle said you had 26 permits. Were they lying? Oh, I see, they weren’t. Your witness, counselor.
Heartless SFMTA Gives Classic Mustang The Denver Boot – 45 Years of Life and Now This
Friday, December 10th, 2010San Francisco’s NIMBY-esque neighborhood parking program has claimed yet another victim.
SFMTA ought to make an exception for classic cars, right?
Poor little feller:
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Only Angle Grinder Man can save him now…
No More Weekend Parking: Sign Atop Telegraph Hill Tells “Visitors” to Go to Hell, More or Less
Monday, August 16th, 2010[UPDATE: Popular Curbed SF weighs in here. I don't know, the way the sign is now, everybody who doesn't have an "A" neighborhood parking decal is defined as a "visitor." That means "tourist" of course. Now, didn't people living on the twisty part of Lombard want to put up a gate? That's kind of the same thing (although there's no MUNI bus that goes down that part of Lombard.) Anyway, I've never seen a zero time limit in a neighborhood parking area - that's a first. Just getting rid of the spaces up there would seem to solve the problem of waiting-for-parking congestion. Explore the issue of privatising street parking in of San Francisco here.]
It’s not immediately obvious that it’s against the rules for tourists to drop people off at the top of Telegraph Hill, but it’s not suggested as an idea – check out this recently-installed sign.
Perhaps it’s time to scratch Coit Tower off the list of official points of interest for the 49 Mile Drive?
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I don’t know, if the purpose of San Francisco’s absurd neighborhood parking program is to “reduce unnecessary personal motor vehicle travel” why don’t we just pull out those 29 parking spaces up there and then the richers of Telegraph Hill could walk or ride bus #39 along with the rest of us “visitors,”,you know, with the little people.
“The preferential residential parking permit (RPP) was established in 1976 to preserve neighborhood living within a major urban center. It is designed to promote the safety, health and welfare of all San Francisco residents by reducing unnecessary personal motor vehicle travel, noise and pollution, and by promoting improvements in air quality, convenience and attractiveness of urban residential living, and increased use of public mass transit.”
Car-Free Market Street Now Enforced, Effectively, By Empty Police Cars
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010This was the scene yesterday morning between Sixth and Seventh – notice the lack of private vehicles?
There are two reasons, it appears, why people coming inbound on Market would obey the new-ish Right Turn Only signs at the intersections of Tenth and also Sixth streets now that the Parking Control Officers are gone.
The first has to do with the police cars parked on Market on Sixth. See the SFPD po-po car on the far right? And there’s another one parked just past Sixth, right in the field of view of drivers when they are deciding whether to risk getting a moving violation.
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So that’s 6th, now here’s 10th, where recent changes have made the prospect of driving on Market straight past 10th, something drivers have done for more than a century, untenable. There are about two dozen arrows staring you in the face and a huge orange and green “RIGHT TURN ONLY” flashing away. Plus there’s a Safe Hit post in the middle of the lane – that won’t bother fire truck drivers a whit but, private vehicle drivers, well, they’re not going to clunk-clunk over that post on a regular basis.
That post plays a big role in getting cars to turn at Tenth but you can’t have the same setup at Sixth, which is a two-way street. I guess that’s where the police cars come in.
Now, I’ll tell you, a few days back I watched most of the inbound cars on Market (like 70-something percent during seven light cycles) go straight. However, there were no police cars parked in the area at that time. Maybe that’s the difference.
Let’s wait and see how drivers behave in a month or so…
