"LJ909" (lj909)
04/26/2016 at 10:07 • Filed to: None
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"LJ909" (lj909)
04/26/2016 at 10:07 • Filed to: None | 0
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Some tickets I got last year have come back to bite me in the ass. So the fine city I live in thinks it a good idea to street sweep on residential streets. Yes I know most cities do this but here’s the problems with it: they do such a shitty job and you are forced to move your cars so they can street sweep. So people with lots of cars have to either wake up early as hell and find somewhere to go until the street sweeping is done, or mess up their yards and park 1 and two cars on the grass. So the city gets a lot of revenue from street sweeping tickets because there’s a follow vehicle that tails the street sweeper and gives out tickets on the cars the sweeper has to go around. Its an annoying inconvenience.
Anyway, how this pertains to me is that I managed on two separate occasions to get 2 tickets less than 15 feet from my driveway. Now my family has a lot of cars. Including my Sonic there are 4 other cars. Sometimes 5. On the morning I got the first ticket, we had our CR-V and Civic on one side, and our Sienna and Nissan NV3500 with the tall roof on the other. No room for me to park at all and I wasn’t about to pull on the grass. I had just moved here so I didn’t know about the street sweeping. My wife woke me up at the last minute saying the street sweeper is coming! I got outside last minute to see the follow vehicle just sitting behind my car with his lights flashing. He could clearly see there was no room for my car as my car was parked right in front of our house. I got in my car, waved a sorry to the guy in the follow vehicle, and went around the corner to get breakfast until I could park back. I ended up getting a $120 street sweeping ticket with a $54 “drive off” fee. Bogus
Second ticket I got, same thing, same guy, except this time I get a ticket not for the street sweeping, but for “improper display of tags”. Let me go into that back story. When I bought my car last year, the dealership had just gotten it in the day before. It had registration tags of Jan 2014. It was Feb 2015. Understanding that they hadn’t had a chance to get the tags yet seeing as they just got the car, I got the car and paid for the registration and everything of course. So, in the DMV systems, it showed I had current registration and tags, even though they weren’t on the car. So I waited for them to come in the mail. Weeks went by. I got in contact with the DMV and asked them about it. They said it they should be coming. They didn’t come for another 4 months.
Fast forward back to me getting the improper display of tags ticket by the street sweeping follow vehicle (which by the way was 150 bucks, and I didn’t even know that street sweeping follow vehicles gave out other kinds of tickets) and I get in contact with the city’s parking enforcement. She tells me that it was my responsibility to make sure the DMV had sent me my tags after I explained to her how I had paid and they were current in the system. How is it my responsibility to make sure they do their jobs for something they were supposed to send me that I already paid for? I’m sure that in writing the ticket they could have seen in the system that while I did have the wrong tags, they weren’t wrong in the system. So I never paid the ticket, though my car is current. So does anyone know what I should do or was the parking enforcement right? Was it my responsibility to stay on the DMV’s ass about my tags? Or should they have done some checking to see my car was properly registered in the system?
facw
> LJ909
04/26/2016 at 11:03 |
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You definitely have to move the cars for the sweeper. It’s a public street, not “your” parking, regardless of how close to your driveway it is. If you want to take advantage of the city’s free parking, you need to play by the rules. The fact that you don’t have enough parking on your property for your vehicles isn’t relevant in the slightest.
The second issue is murkier. Obviously you ultimately have to be responsible for making sure your car is properly plated. Otherwise everyone would just skip it and blame the DMV. Would be nice if it were a fix-it ticket though.
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LJ909
> facw
04/26/2016 at 11:11 |
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I guess I just got annoyed with the inconvenience of it and I’m not used to that. Most cities I’ve lived in either didn’t street sweep on neighborhood streets and stuck to main busy roads, or if they did they just went around the cars that were there with no problem.
The second thing though is murkier like you said. Like my car was properly plated but it wasnt you know? The DMV just never did what they were supposed to do.
wafflesnfalafel
> LJ909
04/26/2016 at 11:15 |
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damn, that is hard core - our street sweepers just go around the parked cars... Do they have specific days or something where everybody has to get their cars off the streets? What a pain in the behind...
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facw
> LJ909
04/26/2016 at 11:17 |
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Street sweeping serves a lot of good purposes. Aside from the obvious aesthetic benefits, it helps avoid clogged storm drains (which can lead to expensive property and road damage), and helps clear road hazards and loose debris (especially nice for cyclists, but everyone wants fewer flat tires). Of course if you feel they are doing it too frequently, you should feel free to raise the issue with your city council (though it is admittedly hard to get such policies changed).
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LJ909
> wafflesnfalafel
04/26/2016 at 11:24 |
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Its every single Friday. And they come early so your sleep is disturbed. Thing is though, not only do they do a shitty job (which makes me think that its an easy way for the city to get ticket revenue) but they don’t come every Friday on schedule like they are supposed too. So some Fridays people wake up and move their car or take it somewhere to be out of the way and they don’t even come.
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LJ909
> facw
04/26/2016 at 11:26 |
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Yea I don’t mind it. Who wouldn’t want their neighborhood street clean? But like I said to the other guy, I think its just an easy revenue generator for the city because the street sweeper drives so fast he doesn’t get most of the gunk and trash off the ground and curbs, and they don’t always come every Friday like they are supposed to, so most people get up to move their cars early for nothing.
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wafflesnfalafel
> LJ909
04/26/2016 at 11:32 |
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lovely...
brianbrannon
> LJ909
04/26/2016 at 12:03 |
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It’s way better to have no tags than the wrong tags