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fromThe Oaklandside
2 days ago

City of Oakland: 'Daylighting' enforcement will have to wait

"So it's gonna be a longer effort," Maher said. "It's gonna involve bringing on the resources to actually paint all these curbs, and it will roll out as those curbs get painted. It's probably a multiple-year project."
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
3 days ago

SF engineer creates 'Find My Parking Cops' app; SFMTA disables it 4 hours later

"It's a rip off 'Find my Friends.' I was able to reverse engineer the SF parking ticket system so I could see close to real time where parking tickets were issued in the city. And I was making a map of where the actual parking cops were as they traverse the city and issue tickets. In theory, you could use that to avoid them and avoid a ticket," said Walz.
Data science
New York City
fromStreetsblog
4 days ago

Federal Drug Agents Seize New 10th Avenue Bike Lane - Streetsblog New York City

The DEA headquarters has blocked a protected bike lane on 10th Avenue, using barricades to reserve curb parking and forcing cyclists into traffic.
Privacy professionals
fromWIRED
5 days ago

For One Glorious Morning, a Website Saved San Francisco From Parking Tickets

A public tool mapped sequential parking-ticket IDs to reveal parking officers' routes, ticket patterns, and fines, enabling tracking and leaderboards of officers' enforcement activity.
fromsfist.com
5 days ago

Local App-Maker Makes Viral App to Track SF Parking Cops

Riley Walz, the same app-maker behind Bop Spotter which uses Shazam to pick up passing tunes from a mystery location in the Mission District and LooksMapping, the restaurant "hotness" meter, has a pretty useful new app called Find My Parking Cops, which maps out the shift routes of every SF parking enforcement officer by the tickets they write, every day.
Gadgets
Privacy technologies
fromMission Local
5 days ago

Want to avoid S.F. parking cops? A 23-year-old's app can help.

Website tracks San Francisco parking citations and officers in real time by querying the citation payment system, mapping locations and ranking officers by ticket totals.
NYC politics
fromStreetsblog
1 week ago

MTA Employees' Personal Cars Create Dirty, Hazardous Environment In East New York - Streetsblog New York City

MTA employee parking on sidewalks in East New York blocks street cleaning, causing persistent litter and sanitation failures despite repeated local requests for enforcement.
California
fromSan Jose Spotlight
1 month ago

Palo Alto considers RV parking restrictions as complaints rise - San Jose Spotlight

Palo Alto is considering banning inoperable or oversized RVs from parking on public streets to address neighborhood complaints and related public-health and safety concerns.
US politics
fromStreetsblog
1 month ago

The 'Disconnect': City Traffic Cops Ignore Severe Parking Scofflaws - Streetsblog New York City

Disconnection between NYPD ticketing and towing database leads to inaction on vehicles eligible for towing.
NYC parents
fromsilive
3 months ago

'Everything went to hell': Staten Island school traffic chaos returns after brief enforcement period

Staten Island school traffic congestion returns when parking enforcement is absent.
London politics
fromwww.newsshopper.co.uk
3 months ago

'My friend was fined for parking at my Grove Park home - now no one wants to visit'

A 75-year-old man's visitor was fined for parking briefly, leaving him feeling isolated and neglected due to recent parking rule changes.
fromMission Local
4 months ago

Former parking control officer testifies that boss targeted minority neighborhoods for tickets on Day 5 of SFMTA trial

Georgopoulos described how the ticketing practices were targeted and unfair, revealing a systemic issue within the SFMTA and its treatment of neighborhoods with higher minority populations.
NYC politics
NYC parents
fromShore News Network
5 months ago

Suffolk cops impound 13 vehicles without plates in Brentwood crackdown

Police impound 13 vehicles without plates following community complaints about illegal parking on Suffolk Avenue.
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