Posts Tagged ‘sfdpt’
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
When parking in San Francisco, you should always curb your wheels. If you can’t tell whether you’re pointing uphill or down, just pour out a little water from your bottle into the gutter.
The way the water goes tells you which way the hill goes. Or just look at what all the other drivers on the block did. Easy peasy, right?
The driver of this VW Cabrio made the wrong choice, so a ticket from SFMTA was the result. Parking Control Officers will spot this infraction from a block away and then make a special trip just for you.
Oh well.
Tags: accident, angle, away, curb, degrees, down, downhill, DPT, hill, illegal, law, legal, meter maids, mta, parking, pco, roll, rule, San Francisco, sfdpt, SFMTA, slope, ticket, tires, up, uphill, Wheels
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
I mean, sure, Fed-Ex makes money on deliveries in San Francisco, but what if you subtract out the amount of dough they pay daily to the DPT? Too bad delivery vehicles don’t have a place to park or something.
This aging Ford van got pwned with two parking tickets in one day down in the Financial District:
Poor FedEx!
Tags: $78, citation, district, double parking, DPT, fedex, financial, meter maiod, mta, parking control officer, pco, sfdpt, SFMTA, ticket, truck, united parcel service, UPS
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
When the signs say that they’re going to ticket cars and run the street sweepers on Tuesday morning betwixt 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM, you can bet that they’re going to ticket cars and run the street sweepers on Tuesday morning just after 8:00 AM. Flooded streets cannot alter this. It Is Written.
So this is how City employees will spend their time today, whether you like it or not!
“Beeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….”
Click to expand
After all, The Spice Must Flow.
Tags: cleaning, DPT, dpw, flood, mta, parking, pco, quotas, rain, sfdpt, SFMTA, storm, street, sweep, sweeping, targets, tickets, tow, water
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Let’s try the sidewalk first. Downsides include the illegality and the possible hassle for pedestrians.
All right, now let’s get onto the street. This is not recommended, particularly going outbound to the west, which is mostly uphill. It’s legal, but pretty scary.
By this time, my lungs were aching for air. Pedaling furiously in 27th gear:
Conclusion: Take the sidewalk. Walk your ride if necessary.
Or go around Russian Hill.
Or go over Russian Hill.
Those are your four choices.
But the city, the city is working on things. Check out the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition‘s take on things right here.
Anyway, four choices. Choose wisely.
NB: Don’t touch anything in the tunnel, as everything is covered in soot.
Tags: bicycle cioalition, bikes, broadway, broadway tunnel, cycling, cyclists, DPT, legal, north beach, pedestrian, riders, russian hill, San Francisco, sfbc, sfdpt, SFMTA, sidewalks, street, tunnel, widen, yelp
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Here’s the scene in the Financial District – why does the UPS driver double park instead of using the space near the curb? Double parking can get you a ticket, right? The orange cone is a nice touch, however….
Uh oh, this doesn’t look good. Do UPS drivers really try to fool the DPT ticket issuers with the old I-already-got-a-ticket routine? Apparently.
Oh well, that’s another $78 down the drain. Did this truck get two tickets yesterday?
That’s what you might conclude after checking the DPT website for online ticketing information.
Does UPS currently owe thousands of dollars to S.F. for illegal parking? Yes.
But if it’s only $2000 a day or so, well that’s just the cost of doing business in the big city, right?
Tags: $78, citation, district, double parking, DPT, financial, meter maiod, mta, parking control officer, pco, sfdpt, SFMTA, ticket, truck, united parcel service, UPS
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
You would think that a car that could fit into a garage could also pass through the sidewalk cut-out made for said garage. Of course you say, it’s axiomatic ‘n stuff. But some people don’t believe that. These homeowners pester the City for official DPT sidewalk curb red paint to keep encroaching street parkers at bay.
As if that’s not enough, said homeowners then proceed to add in their own menacing, hysterical “TOW” lines in red paint, paint that never quite matches the official colour. Thusly, as seen in Ashbury Heights:
Is the owner of this Toyota RAV4 playing a dangerous game? Click to expand.
Is it true that huge WW II-era battleships had less room to play with, width-wise, going through the Panama Canal than what some complaining San Francisco homeowners demand for their little cars? Yes. For example, the 34,000-tonne U.S.S. North Carolina battleship had just 12 inches clearance on either side, back in the day.
But you give a San Francisco homeowner just a foot on either side and it’s TOW, TOW, TOW.
Driving lessons cheerfully given for free. NB: Try not to steer too much. NNB: Try backing her in when you garage it in the first place.
Here’s an idea. After you actually learn how to drive, then take the sandblaster you’ve got somewhere in your garage (you know, right next to the unexploded ordnance you all seem to store) to eliminate evidence of your unneighborlyness.
Good on you, mate.
Tags: blocked, call, curb, cutout, DPT, drive, garage, homeowners, know, mta, note, overhand, paint, parallel, park, parking, rav4, red, san francisco parking street ashbury heights, sfdpt, SFMTA, sidewalk, star, ticket, tow, towed, towing, toyota, truck, wacky, yellow
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