The 2023 law aims to improve street safety by making it easier to see pedestrians, since parking right up against a crosswalk blocks the view drivers have of people entering or approaching intersections. The law applies at all intersections, including those without painted crosswalks, as well as mid-block crosswalks. Cities were allowed to start writing tickets for violations on Jan. 1.
Instead of writing tickets, city spokesman Matthai Chakko said officials are encouraging drivers to comply with the law voluntarily.
“The most important thing is not about citations and tickets, but safety,” Chakko wrote in an email. “Avoiding parking within daylighting zones helps fellow motorists to uphold one of their principle responsibilities: yielding to pedestrians at a sidewalk. It improves their own line of vision as well as that of fellow drivers.”
The engineering control would be building bulb-outs at all these places to both reduce the distance pedestrians have to cross and just solve the problem of cars parking in the space.
Or even just painting curbs, since they say they’ll still ticket drivers parked at painted curbs.
Painting 1,700 curbs would take many years and cost well over $1 million. As it is, they rarely ticket the existing red curbs nor any of the Uber-eats drivers double parked in the bike lane.
Oh no not matinance of roads!
Cowards.
Sounds like people need to start letting the air out of the tires of people who park in the zones
So that it takes longer to remove the hazard. Smart. 🙄
People stop parking there if they know they are going to waste time filling their tires back up
Maybe eventually. It would take a long while for that knowledge to spread.
This has been a law in my country for ages.
