— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Reader Neb fills us in on Alamo Square's neighbor's secret tricks to avoid a street sweeping ticket without abandoning a valuable parking spots:
As DPW was doing street sweeping on my block, some woman was just idling her car on the sidewalk. DPT just drove right by without even giving a notice to this lady, ticketed the car parked on the street directly in front of her, and continued on. Then the sweeper passed, she backed her car onto the street, parked it and left. fuck
Still glad I don't own a car.
Comments (9)
That’s how they do it on Alabama and Florida every week too. We all just pull up on sidewalk until the sweeper passes.
I don’t think before I type, but here’s what I have to say.
DPT will and has ticketed cars that are parked on the street, even if the sweeper has passed, if the car is parked on thee street during the 2-3 hour designated sweeping time. Legally, you can be ticketed if you’re parked there between those hours whether the sweeper even comes or not.
has anyone had this happen to them? i often see people pulling into parking spots as soon as the sweeper passes.
I do this every day (in the Mission) unless I have a decent spot already: car → gym → park right behind street sweeper. The meter maids roll out in front of the street sweeper all morning. Never got a ticket w/ this technique.
Yup, that’s how they do it on Alabama and Florida and I fucking hate you all.
This pisses me off. Not because people are blocking the sidewalk, but because I didn’t think of it when I had a car and lived in the Sunset.
we did this when i lived on Florida and i had a car.
When I lived in the Bayview this is how it was done, as well. At the time it was a $25 ticket for parking on the sidewalk, and a $30 ticket for parking on the street during street cleaning, so it was pretty simple math.
http://library.municode.com/HTML/14143/level3/DIVI_ART7VI_REPA.html#DIVI…
“To Park any vehicle on any street on the days, and between the hours posted with signs giving notice of the days and hours that Parking is prohibited on that side of the street in order to allow street sweeping; provided that such prohibition shall not apply to a vehicle which is Parked during the days and hours that Parking is prohibited after the street sweeper has already passed the place where the vehicle is Parked. (37(c))”
You can legally park on the on the street after the street sweeper goes by. Doesn’t mean that they won’t try to ticket you, but at least you can contest it.
I remember reading that it’s also legal to park on the sidewalk while the street sweeper passes, so long as you remain with your vehicle, but I couldn’t find this in the transportation code.