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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
San Francisco drivers ticketed while parking in own driveways
A group of frustrated San Francisco residents is sick of receiving tickets despite being parked in their own driveways. Some of the residents in the California city say they are convinced that someone is using old photos to file citations against them over and over again. Larry Reed told NBC Bay Area that he found a $108 ticket on his car on Monday. 'One hundred and eight dollars for parking on my driveway,' he told the broadcaster. A complaint had been filed against his car for parking on the sidewalk, part of a flood of complaints that have been made against him and his neighbors, which have resulted in hefty parking fines. "We don't know what the deal is. It's just, when we park on the driveway, we get a notice,' Yolanda Francisco told the broadcaster. 'It's been reported to 311 multiple times. But one picture, multiple times." Residents in San Francisco neighborhoods have been receiving numerous fines for cars parked in their driveways that are slightly sticking out over the sidewalk (Getty) The citations have been happening for about two months in Mission District neighborhoods. According to parking officers who spoke to the broadcaster, they're responding to complaints filed on the city's 311 system. Francisco's son-in-law, David Chen, noted that the photos of the alleged infractions are repeats, showing the same alleged parking violations over and over again. Chen was there when Reed received his citation on Monday. He said Reed's car — while slightly on the sidewalk — left plenty of space for anyone, including people with mobility issues, to get past. "There's like 10 feet of open space. It's not causing a problem for anyone with accessibility issues,' he told the broadcaster. 'It's literally somebody making themselves feel good by submitting it, trolling us, getting us tickets." Reed has gone so far as to post a sign near his front steps offering to move his vehicle for anyone who has an issue with its location — they need only call him. Sharon Gillenwater, another resident living in the Noe Valley neighborhood, said she was fined a total of $324 because her son's car and her SUV slightly cross their driveway line onto the sidewalk when they're parked, according to the U.S. Sun. She called the fines "overzealous punishment" and agrees with the idea that someone is intentionally targeting people in the neighborhoods with their reports. 'We're not fighting the law, we all agree that strollers and disabled people need to pass," she told the publication. 'But can we just be in the spirit of the law? In our case, there is plenty of room for two wheelchairs to go in tandem down the street.' The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it is not targeting the residents, but is just responding to 311 reports as they are received. Reed and his neighbors are frustrated with the sudden flood of complaints, and they want to know why, all of a sudden, someone has raised a stink about their parking.
RNZ News
10 hours ago
- RNZ News
Christchurch Hospital workers sleeping in cars to try secure a car park, mayor says
Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon Christchurch Hospital workers are sleeping in their cars before work to try to secure a car park, mayor Phil Mauger says. Christchurch City Councillors have voted to consider making overnight car parks available at Parakiore Recreation and Sport Centre when it opens in October and potentially providing free transport to and from the building and the hospital a few hundred metres away. Hospital workers had been pleading for better parking because of unaffordable fees at nearby car park buildings and staff safety concerns. Mauger told a council meeting on Wednesday that it was clear the problem had not gone away when he visited the hospital recently. "Some people, nurses and people who work at the hospital, still come to work at 4am in the morning and sleep in their car until it's time to get up. Just so they can get the car close to their place of their work," he said. Other staff had been parking further away but feared for their safety, he said. "A young lady I was talking to... she said I've got a scooter because I know it will go faster than the person chasing me. Now we don't need that," he said. Mauger said he understood existing hospital parking was not enough to account for the overlap between shifts and he wanted an urgent solution. "I want to have this going as soon as we've got the keys and we [open Parakiore]. I don't want it to get lost into the system, and it comes out at the middle of next year. We owe it to these people to look after them as best we can," he said. In May, a hospital staffer was assaulted on her way to work in the evening and a student midwife was attacked on the way to their car after leaving work at the hospital's birthing unit at night. The motion to investigate overnight Parakiore parking received unanimous support around the council table. Councillor Yani Johanson said it was "incredibly frustrating" that the situation had not been resolved by years of effort to make enough parking available. "When we started to do some of the roading changes around Oxford Terrace there was a suggestion that we actually as part of a hospital development do a land swap and actually get a purpose-built car parking building to support the hospital at the time, but people didn't want to go there," he said. "Then it was raised, when we were considering the plans for Metro Sports [Parakiore Recreation and Sports Centre] to put a multi-storey car park there and partnership with the hospital. The health board at the time, central government, for whatever reason rolled out so we didn't do that," he said. Staff were also unable to use a private parking building that opened near the hospital in 2023 because it was too expensive, he said. "I'm really supportive of us doing more. I feel that people's safety is really important," Johanson said. Councillor Kelly Barber also supported the motion but questioned why the onus fell on the council not the government to arrange staff parking. "I think it's madness that our council's having to get involved in something that really is probably an issue that government should have taken care of a long time ago," he said. "I mean, why would you build a house with no parking, if you know if there isn't great public transport? Why would you build a hospital and have inadequate parking for your staff and for the people that visit?"
CBS News
15 hours ago
- Automotive
- CBS News
Nonprofit creates tool to report obstructions directly to Philadelphia Parking Authority
It's getting even easier to report cars blocking crosswalks, loading zones and bike lanes in Philadelphia with a new tool from nonprofit Philly Bike Action. The nonprofit created a new tool called Laser Vision where people can report sidewalk, crosswalk and bike lane parking obstructions directly to the Philadelphia Parking Authority's Mobility Access Violation form, the website said. Philly Bike Action said the tool will help make the streets and sidewalks safer and more accessible. From a smartphone, people can take a photo, follow the prompts and then submit the violation. "Laser Vision will record the date, time, and location of the obstruction, as well as the make and model of the vehicle," Philly Bike Action! said on the website. To use Laser Vision, the user has to create a PBA account.
The Independent
15 hours ago
- Automotive
- The Independent
San Francisco drivers ticketed while parking in own driveways
A group of frustrated San Francisco residents is sick of receiving tickets despite being parked in their own driveways. Some of the residents in the California city say they are convinced that someone is using old photos to file citations against them over and over again. Larry Reed told NBC Bay Area that he found a $108 ticket on his car on Monday. 'One hundred and eight dollars for parking on my driveway,' he told the broadcaster. A complaint had been filed against his car for parking on the sidewalk, part of a flood of complaints that have been made against him and his neighbors, which have resulted in hefty parking fines. "We don't know what the deal is. It's just, when we park on the driveway, we get a notice,' Yolanda Francisco told the broadcaster. 'It's been reported to 311 multiple times. But one picture, multiple times." The citations have been happening for about two months in Mission District neighborhoods. According to parking officers who spoke to the broadcaster, they're responding to complaints filed on the city's 311 system. Francisco's son-in-law, David Chen, noted that the photos of the alleged infractions are repeats, showing the same alleged parking violations over and over again. Chen was there when Reed received his citation on Monday. He said Reed's car — while slightly on the sidewalk — left plenty of space for anyone, including people with mobility issues, to get past. "There's like 10 feet of open space. It's not causing a problem for anyone with accessibility issues,' he told the broadcaster. 'It's literally somebody making themselves feel good by submitting it, trolling us, getting us tickets." Reed has gone so far as to post a sign near his front steps offering to move his vehicle for anyone who has an issue with its location — they need only call him. Sharon Gillenwater, another resident living in the Noe Valley neighborhood, said she was fined a total of $324 because her son's car and her SUV slightly cross their driveway line onto the sidewalk when they're parked, according to the U.S. Sun. She called the fines "overzealous punishment" and agrees with the idea that someone is intentionally targeting people in the neighborhoods with their reports. 'We're not fighting the law, we all agree that strollers and disabled people need to pass," she told the publication. 'But can we just be in the spirit of the law? In our case, there is plenty of room for two wheelchairs to go in tandem down the street.' The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it is not targeting the residents, but is just responding to 311 reports as they are received. Reed and his neighbors are frustrated with the sudden flood of complaints, and they want to know why, all of a sudden, someone has raised a stink about their parking.
CBC
16 hours ago
- CBC
Fake QR codes are popping up on metres — don't scan them, says Montreal parking agency
The agency in charge of parking in the city hung signs on metres to encourage people to download their new parking app, Mobicité. Some of the signs were vandalized with fake QR codes, which might direct people to a fraudulent website.
