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Starting Monday, LA Department of Transportation parking enforcement will change how they spend their days. Instead of gravitating to areas where it's easy to find violations, therefore write a lot of tickets, they will now be assigned a neighborhood beat.
That's a good or bad thing, depending on how you see it. If you tend to park illegally and get away without being ticketed because you live in an area officers don't patrol, those days are probably over. But the good thing, in theory, is that response to chronic problems that degrade neighborhoods--say abandoned vehicles, trucks idling overnight, oversize vehicles--will be more efficiently responded too.
This is all coming out of the department's honest, but slow effort to reach out more to the community. At a recent meeting, residents expressed frustration. They would see parking enforcement on street cleaning days--obviously--but when it came to responding to other problems, it was difficult to solve problems.
"If you spend your whole day going where citations are a guarantee, then you ignore other neighborhoods," explained LADOT spokesman Bruce Gilman over the phone. "It's far better to patrol the same neighborhood and get to know that neighborhood. Hopefully we'll have more presense and we'll be more responsive."
If someone is parking like an asshole on your street, feel free to tattle. Call LADOT's 24/7 communications centers at 213 485-4184 (use option 2) or 818 752-5100, (use option 2), to speak with an operator can dispatch a traffic officer to respond to the location.
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Yeah ok. But ass hole ticket officers need to stop writing tickets to people in loading only spots as soon as they see a car in a loading only spot. I was in a spot for 3 minutes! riught outside the place of bussiness I was inside. Came out HOLDING PACKAGE TO LOAD IN MY CAR which, incidentally had its blinkers on, only to see a ticket giver walking up to my car. I had been there for a total of no more than 4 minutes. WHAT the FUCK? Gets better...I say hello, and lift up my packages and say im loading. He turns around woithout a word and leaves as do I. No ticket issued. Guess what I get in the mail 3 weeks later? ASS HOLE! Im fighting it now but you know how that goes.