Here’s another one from my phone. (Rant warning)
Clearly I am not a fan of the SF DPT or MTA. This will be a post in the style of one from Akit’s Complaint Department (although not as well-researched).
Here’s the deal- a while back the DPT came to “re-paint” the stripes on the parking area near my house. But of course they didn’t just re-stripe or re-paint. They added new paint and new lines. Did they strip out the old lines? NOPE.
So what? Well, let’s say you get a parking ticket for parking over a stripe. How can you fight that? You could take a pic and send it in but they may argue that those were the old lines…. etc. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
In the pic attached the car on the far left is actually parked incorrectly, there’s a space of a few feet then the 1st “new” line. I have NO idea why they painted it like that. It’s almost like a fake motorcycle spot. And at night, you can barely see any of the stripes. And if it’s raining you can’t see them at all. But that doesn’t matter… the DPT may decide to randomly give you a ticket anyway.
Why would they fix that? It’s a money machine!
