Happy First Day of Street Sweeping Season!

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

$50. For a street-sweeping ticket. Not for parking in a handicapped spot or in front of a fire hydrant. Seriously? Seriously?!?

This is out of control. I was ticketed at 8:16 a.m. BEFORE street sweeping had even begun in my neighborhood. By the time I moved my car at 8:24 a.m. I hadn't impeded ANYTHING. How about ticketing AFTER the street sweeper moves through and ticketing people who ACTUALLY impeded street sweeping? Oh too much hassle you say? I don't think so. If the city can put people out bright and early to ticket before people move their cars to go to work then they sure as hell can put those same people out at say, 9 a.m. when most working people will have gone for the day and what remains are cars that will likely be on the street all day.

I know I'll be snarked from here to Winter Hill but I don't know why we take this crap. When I moved here in 2000, a street sweeping ticket was $10. $10! Now it's $50. I know MY pay hasn't increased 5X since 2000.

Comments

I think it's about time someone starts using some science in this thread.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Hang on... "even-numbered" and "odd-numbered" Mondays? Does that mean that we're parking on the even or odd side for the first Monday in May? It's odd-numbered as the first Monday of the month, but it's even-numbered as May 6. Shit's more confusing than the arbitrary schedule that utilizes three independent variables for maximum inconsistency as determined by an independent panel of impartial observers.

Re: I think it's about time someone starts using some science in this thread.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I tell you none of this would ever have happened if we were using the goddamn metric system already.

Re: I think it's about time someone starts using some science in this thread.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Awesome. :D