Parked on sidewalk in SF, no astroglide offered

man, two hours on the sidewalk while I watched a movie at a friend's place
to come out and find a one-friggin'-hundred dollar ticket (that's $100 boys
and girls) on my bike! man, bored cops. or I suppose an uptight neighbor
called it in. shoulda gone for the hydrant...

vijoy

 

just got the bike, and just got onto ba.moto so I didn't know about the
crackdown. thanks for the info.

0.001 hours on the sidewalk is all it would take for me to deserve the
ticket. if it's The Law, it's The Law. I just think $100 is ridiculous for
such a transgression. $400 for a red light runner? hand'em out like cotton
candy. but please- a parking ticket?

 

I still see people parking on Beale/Mission, so enforcement must be variable
again.

Anyway, yeah, it's lame that it's cheaper to park at a hydrant or in the red
zones, but we're an unintended consequence. The pedestrian advocates were tired
of cars blocking sidewalks in certain neighborhoods and pushed this through.

 

Sidewalk parking is usually enforced only upon a complaint --
and then they'll ticket all offending vehicles on the block.

I've never seen an SFPD officer issue such a citation, it's
always (in my experience) DPT.

If the lack of moto parking bugs you, there is an action
planned this Christmas shopping (redundant) season --
motorcycles will take up car parking spaces, one each.
Union Square has been suggested as a proper venue.

 

Nope. But there are 1200 dedicated motorcycle spaces for 15000 bikes,
not counting the daytime commuters.

 

so take up a full car space.
get your friends to do the same. one bike per space, ideally all in a
row. keep it up along with a letter-to-the-comical campaign suggesting
this is ludicruous.