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fromStreetsblog
1 week agoNew York City
Brooklyn Still Choked by Placard Elite Leaving Their Cars Everywhere With No Consequences - Streetsblog New York City
Downtown Brooklyn has pervasive illegal parking, heavily placarded, with almost no enforcement and only three percent of offenders receiving tickets.
fromThe Oaklandside
3 weeks agoCity 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 weeks agoSF 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
Privacy professionals
fromWIRED
3 weeks agoFor 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
3 weeks agoLocal 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
NYC politics
fromStreetsblog
1 month agoMTA 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.
fromMission Local
5 months agoFormer 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
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