Vehicle Blocking Food Trucks on Wilshire Racks up $800 in Parking Tickets
July 19, 2010 by LAguy · 3 Comments
A battle has erupted between food trucks and restaurants that rent space from office buildings in the Mid-Wilshire area. And the 5700 block of Wilshire (around Museum Square) has become ground zero. Since around mid-June, employees from Museum Square have been trying to take up all the spaces in the area in order to block food trucks from parking there. It looks as though there are around 10 vehicles being used to do this, and they all rack up a lot of parking tickets. A video documenting the ordeal can be seen here.
Jaywalking Ticket in L.A.? Are you kidding me?
July 13, 2010 by LAguy · 4 Comments
Am I the only person in LA to get a Jaywalking ticket? I was crossing a non-busy street and the nearest crosswalk was a block away? If this doesn’t prove that these maniacs are ticket-happy, then I don’t know what will.
KTLA Reporter Gayle Anderson Gets Multiple Parking Tickets on Live TV
May 26, 2010 by LAguy · 6 Comments
KTLA reporter Gayle Anderson was doing a live broadcast from Santa Monica, when an unexpected guest showed up in the background. That guest was a Santa Monica parking enforcement officer who wrote Anderson at least two $50 tickets. Anderson tried to explain to the officer that they had, indeed, paid for parking, but the officer seemed unimpressed and continued to write the citations. In an effort to make light of the situation, the guest who was being featured on the newscast (which was about the best cars to take on road-trips) chimed in, “We can afford the Porsche, we can afford the ticket.”
City to Send Text Alerts About Street Sweeping
May 4, 2010 by LAguy · 8 Comments
Huntington Beach Councilman Devin Dwyer received “about a dozen” tickets for failing to move his car during street sweeping hours. Frustrated with the city’s street-sweeping program, Dwyer went so far as to threaten to publicly rip up his tickets at a televised council meeting. (He later apologized for his behavior.) Now, Dwyer is proud to announce that the city is introducing an alert system that will send text-messages or emails in order to give residents ample warning to move their cars. Next year, Dwyer plans on introducing a measure that will grant drivers one free pass on street sweeping violations.
Los Angeles Profits From Right Turn Trap
April 23, 2010 by LAguy · 6 Comments
A crowded intersection in Los Angeles, rigged with a red-light camera, has been issuing drivers tickets of around $500 for making illegal right turns. The “illegal” turns are made during the 0.6 seconds “between the end of the yellow light and the illumination of the green arrow.” Just to recap: The turns are not made on red lights; they are made between the end of the yellow light and the illumination of the green arrow.
L.A. Parking Enforcement Officers Wrongly Issue Tickets at Broken Meters
March 11, 2010 by LAguy · 13 Comments
Despite Los Angeles’ policy not to ticket cars parked in front of failed meters, City Councilman Tom LaBonge has been getting citizen complaints about exactly that. Two of those complaints came from his own staff. One recent study found that anywhere from 10 to 12 percent of the city’s meters fall into that category. Per government data, there were 550 thousand tickets written last year for expired meters; 2% were contested; 40% of those contests were proved valid. One city official believes the solution is replacing the old, failing meters with newer “pay-stations.” (To date about 18% of the city’s meters have been replaced.) In the meantime, however, there are a lot of angry drivers. Said one, “I would like to feel that this city is not trying to marginalize me into being a petty criminal in order to make money from me. And a huge population of this city think that that’s what’s going on.”
