Comments on: Spot or Not: Parking in San Francisco

By: M

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:27:59 +0000

Tow his butt. I must have OCD for checking both ends of my car when parking. It’s just good manners to respect someone’s property rights as I expect them to be considerate of mine.

By: Sophie

Sophie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:10:59 +0000

I just called the towing number.
I learned an interesting “feature”: once the DPT car has acknowledged the car on site, you can choose to let the officer try to contact the owner to have him/her move the car – with a single ticket. (if address matching the license plate is within a couple blocks of the parked car).

Pretty cool, because I still think it sucks to have a neighbor towed if we can avoid it.

By: jay

jay — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:26:59 +0000

I always feel bad ticketing or towing. I live in a house with 2 garages and a small space in between. A honda del sol or mini cooper fits, thats about it. last year i payed 400 dollars to repair my front axl from driving over curb. ive also missed worked on a few occasions and been late countless times. last week a van was blocking both driveways. i honked for a good 20 minutes,no one came out. a neighbor told me which house the car belonged to, a block up. I knock and knock and no one answers. i knock for 15 minutes, a guy comes out and moves the car,with no apology at all. he even gave the attitude that i was the dick to ask him to move. i saved him a few hundred dollars because the other tenant where i live was gonna tow. some people are aplogoetic and just ignorant and some are just all around rude. so how are we(those with blocked driveways” to know the difference. I honk then leave a note. if they are blocking severly i ticket. tow if i cant get out. or tow on site of second time. if they park there a second time afer you leave a note, thats just a slap in your face. i pay property tax and want to get in my driveway and garage that i pay for.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:11:38 +0000

the reason you weren’t towed, is because the person whose driveway you were blocking didn’t request it.
Towing is by request-only for blocked driveways.
If they can maneuver around you, they might just feel annoyed enough to have you ticketed only.

Some lame ass woman blocked our driveway yesterday: was a full 2 feet into the RED ZONE, and with cars parked across the street on our narrow little SF block, it’s impossible to make the turn in or out of the driveway.
Hence, the RED ZONE.
She insisted that only her TIRES needed to be out of the RED ZONE, and since the back 3 FEET of her station wagon were IN the driveway, it wasn’t illegal.
It was hilarious watching her try to argue with the Parking Control Officer, with 20+ years experience ticketing blocked driveways, the lame ass woman yelling at the Officer and me! rude as hell, and we both calmly telling her: no, she’s wrong. She could have been towed.
And next time, she will be!

By: Pammy

Pammy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:59:09 +0000

Your rude and you deserved to be towed…. maybe you should move out sf, you dumb slit.

By: thundt

thundt — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:48:42 +0000

Re lack of trees as complained about by the idiotic urbanSF7: that particular slice of sidewalk has “just a few” pipes under it — notice the access hatches. I see four, just in this photo. Thus, planting trees would be impossible. USF7 would know this if he ever did a tree planting with FUF or otherwise bothered educating himself on the subject.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:47:40 +0000

“I had parked a car 6″ into a driveway “red zone” but not in the driveway…ie not where the curb dipped (so definitely not blocking the driveway).”

I got a ticket for this too, at 8pm on a Sunday no less. I think it’s bullshit that people can have curbs painted red that aren’t blocking driveways. I tried to fight my ticket for this one, but it didn’t work. Homeowners who are assholes like this need to just die, really. If someone isn’t inconveniencing you then let it go. This was on 19th at Noe.

As for the picture in this post, that’s just ridiculous.

By: Deb

Deb — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:10:55 +0000

We live on a very busy 4 lane street and have 5 cars which go in and out of the garage, 3 of them on a daily basis (multi-family bldg – not all ours!). We have DPT red paint on either side of our driveway and enforce the red zone even if the cars don’t block the driveway because we need that space in order to get a decent angle backing out. If we don’t have that space, we have to back up across at least three lanes of traffic on a very busy street. People just don’t think. Did I mention that there is a public parking lot right across the street?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:25:46 +0000

That photo looks like it was taken out of my front window any day of the week.

By: sanfrantim

sanfrantim — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:26:26 +0000

Write a note … and make it good. Once, when trying to park in a crowded parking lot, I noticed a car that was piggigshly parked so as to take up both of the sole remaining 2 spaces in the lot. The car had a “WWJD” bumper sticker (translation: “What would Jesus Do”). So I placed a note on the jerk’s windshield that read, “Jesus would not park like an asshole.”