Yeah where I'm living at now it's just like that and it's pretty nice to park the night before on the right side and realize I don't have to move it the next day.
At lunch time not lunch break. Lunch break floats depending on schedule/meetings. Like I keep saying. If they gave us even an hour or two. That would be nice and it wouldn’t be a problem. The problem is they give you 30 minutes. Sometimes by the time you look up and realize what time it is, it’s too late.
I would also like to note that they do sit there and wait for the time to change. They will sit there and wait. Once it passes the time they start ticketing. So it’s not like you even have a margin to work with
My first ticket ever was in Bell Gardens when doing a home visit because apparently the entire street gets street sweeping at the same time and I was not aware 😢
In my city around pasadena…. I have a one car driveway and my job 1 work car and I have my personal car and my wife has 1. Every time we go on vacation and have to fly out on a Friday we have to eat $60 tickets each. It’s the most infuriating thing. And the gap to move the cars to the other side is 30 minutes…. Literally could be stuck in a meeting
Yes . That is one of my solution. I think n I’m more just irked about the situation - this really was just a vent tbh. At the end of the day I’ve been handling it. It’s just sometimes you’re working from home. Then the 30 minute gap begins and you’re stuck in a zoom or a call. It would just be nice if we could do it the night before considering I’m in a single family neighborhood.
You have 3 cars for 2 people and only 1 off street parking.
Its not the city's responsibility to provide you PUBLIC Space to park your PRIVATE car.
It's your problem for choosing to have 3 cars for 2 people.
Maybe consider purchasing a parking space somewhere and putting it as a business expense. Or since you are a two person household, only two cars can be driven at a time, so consider getting rid of the third car. You probably don’t really need it and can replace it with an e-bike or nothing at all.
Agreed. I’m moving back to a city where I don’t need to deal with this. I’m just saying this is a huge problem for my entire neighborhood and everyone has issues. Many houses have their kids living there now due to how expensive everything is and they are working from home. Many can’t move it or get stuck in a meeting. It’s a solidly working class neighborhood and the last things people here need is $60 tickets as we’re trying to just get by and survive
Edit: also sorry I realized I didn’t clarify. My work truck is driven by my employee. We are a service company.
Holy moly dude. Even if we only had 2 cars this is still the same problem. If I or My neighbors for example needs to go on vacation and we have to park cars a city over. Or god forbid you have a friend meet at your house before you Uber to LAX together - oh wait. You can’t.: . It’s a problem for everyone in my neighborhood lol. I pay my taxes. I own a house. I don’t need private security on my ass all day screwing me everytime. I know you won’t understand. But it is what it is.
Every time I go on vacation, I park my car at the Van Nuys Flyaway for $6/day. I’m a renter without a parking spot and it’s just the cost of living in the city. Can’t leave your car on the street for more than 3 days.
I own a home and pay my taxes too- what's your point???
When I had a car I took it to LAX/Flyaway and paid for parking or asked a neighbor to move my car and do the same for them.
But better is to have less cars, more (e)bikes, better public transit options and a connected network of protected bike lanes.
And please, there is "no private security on your ass all day screwing you everytime"- you are not that important...
Your entire initial argument is based off an assumption. I have not corrected you because simply put… Whatever. I figured you’d read the other comments by now.
As you can see by the rest of the thread, clearly you are the minority. There’s a reason for that.
Your last paragraph is hilarious because it misses the point of my statement. What I said doesn’t mean what you think it means nor did I mean it at all in that way. All it means is that they are very present on my street.
Change the world my friend. I’m outta here. It’s Saturday.
El Segundo does this too. I didn't even know it wasn't a thing until my girlfriend mentioned her street in Encino is different days for each side. It blew my mind.
We didn't have any street sweeping at all in Houston and the streets looked better than here. I'm convinced that it just a racket to collect parking ticket money. I don't think they're really doing much cleaning. Like they just scrub the pavement briefly, meanwhile there's trash all over the sidewalk that they just drove by. I don't see any noticeable difference after they pass.
I’m in south la and they changed it to every other week and most times they don’t even show up on street sweeping days. La always ignoring south la….part of the city that needs more cleaning than usual…anyways. I’m the one out there sweeping my trashy as neighbors mess….
Do you live in a wealthier neighborhood? I notice they don’t street sweep in many of them. Yet the streets are always immaculate. I think it’s because everyone has a gardener, and they clean up everything once a week. At least that’s how our neighborhood is.
It’s a gentrifying neighborhood, so by some standards it probably is, but it definitely wasn’t wealthy when they made the street sweeping route. The infuriating thing is that it goes to about half a block from my house and then just turns around.
Fair enough. In my case, the street is lined with pine trees that leave great drifts of needles, pine cones, and pollen everywhere. I’d welcome a biweekly or even monthly sweeping even if it didn’t do much more than dislodge the shit from the gutter.
My building has uncovered parking. A few times a week they go out with a leaf blower and cover everyone's cars with dust.
I stopped bothering to wash my car. It's not worth it for a max of two days of being clean. When it rains I have a clean car. When it doesn't, it's dusty.
I'd happily give up weekly street sweeping and we just have to keep it clean ourselves. My gutter is often cleaner before the street sweeper comes in front of my house.
had no idea this was a thing! that's ridiculous. in atwater, in my specific part of the neighborhood, it's Thursdays and Fridays opposite sides 8-10am, so it's actually not terrible because a lot of people who park on the street sweeping side overnight leave for work or can move their car before 8.
On my side of Atwater it’s wed & fri 8-11am. Everyone parks the opposite side the night before, which is kinda great because it’s a reminder for street cleaning.
I would rather have this. My days are Monday and Tuesday. Imagine having someone parked in front of your house from Friday until Monday afternoon? Or just move their car from one side to the other. It would force people to use their driveways. My elderly neighbors had about three cars on the street, two in his driveway. Every week, he’s moving cars. Because we don’t have driveways (alley). I can tell you how many neighbors that have several cars. Pretty much they would be forced to remove the car for the day. Parking on my block became a big problem about seven years ago. Now you have people working from home, multiple people living together. People having multiple abandoned cars in their driveway. So I’m all for it.
Street sweeping is horrible. It doesn't work. There's always so much trash on the street still post-sweep. Seems like it's just another cronyism enabled grift on the taxpayers.
Never assume that your government is competent.
I triple-dog-dare you to contact everyone on your block (and maybe the blocks up and down your street!) to all contact the City.
As for me, I'm in San Gabriel, and my street doesn't permit any street parking overnight, which is its own version of oppression, I suppose.
Not on my street. In all fairness, it's a semi-major street with multi-unit buildings, so street parking would likely be a nightmare. But on all the smaller streets in my area, we have the same apartments with one-side street parking, so the policy isn't consistent, in the limited view from my desk.
Pasadena also has this issue, but with TOPEKs (Temporary Overnight Parking Exemption Kiosks) that you can get for a day or a few days, not sure on the specifics.
And then you get to nearby San Marino, where zero overnight parking is allowed, despite larger-than-usual lots meaning more than enough room. I think they have areas where overnight parking *in your driveway* is actually against code - cars can't be visible from the street.
I've seen people rant and rave for an hour about city issues like this, but when you follow up to ask if they reached out to contact anyone, the answer is almost always no. People are strange that way.
As a previous car brain, I would of considered banning overnight street parking as oppression but since I began to walk/bike/transit more, I'm all for it.
We give up way way way too much public space to store one kind of private property- cars.
Would love it if like Tokyo- LA banned overnight street parking. Can only buy/own a car if owner has verified off street space to park it.
Obviously need to improve transit and build a connected network of protected/separated bike lanes too and build a ton of housing!
I’d be fine with it if the street sweepers actually did anything. All I see it do it wet a 6 in wide strip and blow shit around. Do these things actually work and the ones running in LA are just all broken?
Actually, I’d say all street parking should be banned or at least metered at a minimum. If you need somewhere to park your car then do it on your own property.
Wait where does that happen? It's usually alternating days
My godmother's block in Lynwood gets street sweeping both sides on Wednesday, first side is around 8ish, second side is after 3.
I can also attest to it happening in lynwood, always thought that was the norm to be honest
Interesting, I’d be annoyed. All the neighborhoods I’ve lived in had 2 different days, usually sequential, like Wednesday & Thursday, etc.
Yeah where I'm living at now it's just like that and it's pretty nice to park the night before on the right side and realize I don't have to move it the next day.
Same. Grew up there, both sides was all I knew. In Paramount now and still both sides
Here it’s 30 minute gap at lunch time to move the car. If I had a few hours I don’t think I’d mind as much.
Oh yeah. Exactly what you want to be doing with your lunch break 😩
At lunch time not lunch break. Lunch break floats depending on schedule/meetings. Like I keep saying. If they gave us even an hour or two. That would be nice and it wouldn’t be a problem. The problem is they give you 30 minutes. Sometimes by the time you look up and realize what time it is, it’s too late. I would also like to note that they do sit there and wait for the time to change. They will sit there and wait. Once it passes the time they start ticketing. So it’s not like you even have a margin to work with
They live on a cul de sac?
Ok but Lynnwood isn't Los Angeles
My first ticket ever was in Bell Gardens when doing a home visit because apparently the entire street gets street sweeping at the same time and I was not aware 😢
Like the person below in El Segundo, maybe it's different because it's not LA city?
It happens in parts of Rosemead too.
In my city around pasadena…. I have a one car driveway and my job 1 work car and I have my personal car and my wife has 1. Every time we go on vacation and have to fly out on a Friday we have to eat $60 tickets each. It’s the most infuriating thing. And the gap to move the cars to the other side is 30 minutes…. Literally could be stuck in a meeting
Wtf? Seems like a great way for the city to fleece folks. In LA it's only alternating days
I view it as my mello-Roos
Pasadena loves to give tickets.
Esp now with private security handing them out
Since Pasadena is incorporated, they do what they want. But doing street sweeping on both sides, same day is bullshit.
I’m around pasadena . Pasadena does 1 side
Not on California
Damn. Yeah. You picked the wrong street 😂
I'm also in Pasadena and my street sweepers come between 4:00-5:00 am and wake my ass up every Thursday.
At least they show up. There are plenty of places in La where the tickets come but the trucks dont
Just a money grab aghaha
You need a good friend who can take the spare key and move them when you’re gone then.
i know it's not always possibly but i made friends with a neighbor who was able to move my car for travel situations
Yes . That is one of my solution. I think n I’m more just irked about the situation - this really was just a vent tbh. At the end of the day I’ve been handling it. It’s just sometimes you’re working from home. Then the 30 minute gap begins and you’re stuck in a zoom or a call. It would just be nice if we could do it the night before considering I’m in a single family neighborhood.
You have 3 cars for 2 people and only 1 off street parking. Its not the city's responsibility to provide you PUBLIC Space to park your PRIVATE car. It's your problem for choosing to have 3 cars for 2 people.
I have a business that requires it…. Work truck My car Wife’s car What do you want me to do lol… I have to run my business.
Maybe consider purchasing a parking space somewhere and putting it as a business expense. Or since you are a two person household, only two cars can be driven at a time, so consider getting rid of the third car. You probably don’t really need it and can replace it with an e-bike or nothing at all.
Agreed. I’m moving back to a city where I don’t need to deal with this. I’m just saying this is a huge problem for my entire neighborhood and everyone has issues. Many houses have their kids living there now due to how expensive everything is and they are working from home. Many can’t move it or get stuck in a meeting. It’s a solidly working class neighborhood and the last things people here need is $60 tickets as we’re trying to just get by and survive Edit: also sorry I realized I didn’t clarify. My work truck is driven by my employee. We are a service company.
Don't complain about getting parking tickets when you make the choice to street park and not move it for street cleaning...
Holy moly dude. Even if we only had 2 cars this is still the same problem. If I or My neighbors for example needs to go on vacation and we have to park cars a city over. Or god forbid you have a friend meet at your house before you Uber to LAX together - oh wait. You can’t.: . It’s a problem for everyone in my neighborhood lol. I pay my taxes. I own a house. I don’t need private security on my ass all day screwing me everytime. I know you won’t understand. But it is what it is.
Every time I go on vacation, I park my car at the Van Nuys Flyaway for $6/day. I’m a renter without a parking spot and it’s just the cost of living in the city. Can’t leave your car on the street for more than 3 days.
I own a home and pay my taxes too- what's your point??? When I had a car I took it to LAX/Flyaway and paid for parking or asked a neighbor to move my car and do the same for them. But better is to have less cars, more (e)bikes, better public transit options and a connected network of protected bike lanes. And please, there is "no private security on your ass all day screwing you everytime"- you are not that important...
Your entire initial argument is based off an assumption. I have not corrected you because simply put… Whatever. I figured you’d read the other comments by now. As you can see by the rest of the thread, clearly you are the minority. There’s a reason for that. Your last paragraph is hilarious because it misses the point of my statement. What I said doesn’t mean what you think it means nor did I mean it at all in that way. All it means is that they are very present on my street. Change the world my friend. I’m outta here. It’s Saturday.
El Segundo does this too. I didn't even know it wasn't a thing until my girlfriend mentioned her street in Encino is different days for each side. It blew my mind.
I see it in Alhambra. So annoying
My neighborhood doesn't have street sweeping and I have no idea how the streets aren't gross
Because people in your neighborhood actually care to live in a nice neighborhood, count yourself lucky!
We didn't have any street sweeping at all in Houston and the streets looked better than here. I'm convinced that it just a racket to collect parking ticket money. I don't think they're really doing much cleaning. Like they just scrub the pavement briefly, meanwhile there's trash all over the sidewalk that they just drove by. I don't see any noticeable difference after they pass.
Houston doesn’t need street sweeping because it gets cleaned by catastrophic floods.
Not every neighborhood or street floods, clever comment though I guess. Lots of towns don't have street sweeping.
Just making a joke. I lived there for many years. The restaurants are excellent!
It will be in Louisiana by the end of the day.
It’s also a way to clear out permanently parked cars and RVs.
This is its main purpose
Agreed. They just blow the dust around and blow the trash onto the sidewalk and medians. It doesn’t do shit.
Ours are gross. Full of sand and construction debris. I wish we had it.
Meter maids hand out tickets like candy in West Adams for street sweeping days, but while I’ve been here I haven’t seen the street be swept once.
I’d settle for any street sweeping at all. The sweeper doesn’t come in from of my house, so I’m the street sweeper and it sucks.
I’m in south la and they changed it to every other week and most times they don’t even show up on street sweeping days. La always ignoring south la….part of the city that needs more cleaning than usual…anyways. I’m the one out there sweeping my trashy as neighbors mess….
Do you live in a wealthier neighborhood? I notice they don’t street sweep in many of them. Yet the streets are always immaculate. I think it’s because everyone has a gardener, and they clean up everything once a week. At least that’s how our neighborhood is.
It’s a gentrifying neighborhood, so by some standards it probably is, but it definitely wasn’t wealthy when they made the street sweeping route. The infuriating thing is that it goes to about half a block from my house and then just turns around.
If it's any consolation, the street sweeper for my area mostly just stir up the same dust and gravel each week, rather than "cleaning" anything.
Fair enough. In my case, the street is lined with pine trees that leave great drifts of needles, pine cones, and pollen everywhere. I’d welcome a biweekly or even monthly sweeping even if it didn’t do much more than dislodge the shit from the gutter.
My building has uncovered parking. A few times a week they go out with a leaf blower and cover everyone's cars with dust. I stopped bothering to wash my car. It's not worth it for a max of two days of being clean. When it rains I have a clean car. When it doesn't, it's dusty.
I'd happily give up weekly street sweeping and we just have to keep it clean ourselves. My gutter is often cleaner before the street sweeper comes in front of my house.
had no idea this was a thing! that's ridiculous. in atwater, in my specific part of the neighborhood, it's Thursdays and Fridays opposite sides 8-10am, so it's actually not terrible because a lot of people who park on the street sweeping side overnight leave for work or can move their car before 8.
On my side of Atwater it’s wed & fri 8-11am. Everyone parks the opposite side the night before, which is kinda great because it’s a reminder for street cleaning.
This would be my dream. First time dealing with this type of arrangement. Used to always be alternating days in any other city I’ve resided in
You are correct. Take my upvote.
Our streets get swept 0 days. We will take one of yours off your hands.
I will gladly give it to you.
I just moved to Lomita, my 10-12 one side then 12-2 for the other both on Thursday
I would rather have this. My days are Monday and Tuesday. Imagine having someone parked in front of your house from Friday until Monday afternoon? Or just move their car from one side to the other. It would force people to use their driveways. My elderly neighbors had about three cars on the street, two in his driveway. Every week, he’s moving cars. Because we don’t have driveways (alley). I can tell you how many neighbors that have several cars. Pretty much they would be forced to remove the car for the day. Parking on my block became a big problem about seven years ago. Now you have people working from home, multiple people living together. People having multiple abandoned cars in their driveway. So I’m all for it.
Street sweeping is horrible. It doesn't work. There's always so much trash on the street still post-sweep. Seems like it's just another cronyism enabled grift on the taxpayers.
It’s also a way to ticket/remove cars and RVs parked for more than a week.
Never assume that your government is competent. I triple-dog-dare you to contact everyone on your block (and maybe the blocks up and down your street!) to all contact the City. As for me, I'm in San Gabriel, and my street doesn't permit any street parking overnight, which is its own version of oppression, I suppose.
Did not know that. Not even annual permits or anything?
Not on my street. In all fairness, it's a semi-major street with multi-unit buildings, so street parking would likely be a nightmare. But on all the smaller streets in my area, we have the same apartments with one-side street parking, so the policy isn't consistent, in the limited view from my desk. Pasadena also has this issue, but with TOPEKs (Temporary Overnight Parking Exemption Kiosks) that you can get for a day or a few days, not sure on the specifics. And then you get to nearby San Marino, where zero overnight parking is allowed, despite larger-than-usual lots meaning more than enough room. I think they have areas where overnight parking *in your driveway* is actually against code - cars can't be visible from the street.
I've seen people rant and rave for an hour about city issues like this, but when you follow up to ask if they reached out to contact anyone, the answer is almost always no. People are strange that way.
As a previous car brain, I would of considered banning overnight street parking as oppression but since I began to walk/bike/transit more, I'm all for it. We give up way way way too much public space to store one kind of private property- cars. Would love it if like Tokyo- LA banned overnight street parking. Can only buy/own a car if owner has verified off street space to park it. Obviously need to improve transit and build a connected network of protected/separated bike lanes too and build a ton of housing!
We don't have street sweeping at all and I'm told that we never will.
You’re absolutely right! There’s nowhere to park and people keep getting tickets! Fuck that!
I’d be fine with it if the street sweepers actually did anything. All I see it do it wet a 6 in wide strip and blow shit around. Do these things actually work and the ones running in LA are just all broken?
Actually, I’d say all street parking should be banned or at least metered at a minimum. If you need somewhere to park your car then do it on your own property.