Ridiculously odd parking regulations

[25thhour]

Re: Ridiculously odd parking regulations

Where I live we can park anywhere we bloody well want except on main roads and within 10meters from fire hydrants and stop signs...

[adlp]

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[Crashfan3]

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Where I live we can park anywhere we bloody well want except on main roads and within 10meters from fire hydrants and stop signs...

Same here. And my car is barely worth $1000, so paying several hundred dollars a year to park it would be nonsensical thinking.
Such a regulation would never pass in my town, because there's a Catholic church in the old part of town with parking for about 30 cars but their congregation probably has around 1000 people (I think it's the only Catholic church in the county), because each and every mass, cars line up the streets in a three-block radius.
The city would certainly profit from making people pay to park there, but there was a huge fiasco a few years ago when they tried to turn it into a one-way street, so I doubt they would try to set up paid parking.

[Cavernio]

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The street my parents live on is specifically designed so that university students can't park on it with ease. You can park on it overnight, but not from 10-4 mon-fri. Because all those, uh, people not at home would get disturbed by the parking or the some such. And no, there's absolutely no businesses around so it's not taking up prime parking or anything either. It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen as seems the work of one bitchy, pushy person 20 years ago.

[Mollocephalus]

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We have parking tickets for residents too, but it costs 10 euros for an entire year. The area you can park in in limited but fairly large based on where you live, and the parking is free for anyone during holidays, sundays and from 8 PM to 9 AM overnight.

That shit is just ridiculous and out of proportion, it's almost cheaper to just put your car in a garage. What were they thinking?

[bender5]

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My friends and I always used to get tickets for being parked on the street between the hours of 2-6am. I never understood why that was a rule, but apparently it's bad to be on the road, when no one is on the road.

[RagedBerserker]

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My friends and I always used to get tickets for being parked on the street between the hours of 2-6am. I never understood why that was a rule, but apparently it's bad to be on the road, when no one is on the road.

Where do you live... because if it's in an area where snow can fall plows need to be able to plow the roads.

[bender5]

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I lived in NJ at the time, but there are specific rules not to park on the road during snow, so they can plow. I don't really see the need for a $50 ticket to be parked on a suburban streets

[Oni-Paranoia]

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It's odd because most of the main streets listed in one of the districts have signs on the sidewalk about parking during snowfall and storms. So I'm sure some of the rules collide in some areas with this parking program. This city is also full of Hispanic and Dominican idiots who live off of food stamps and SSI checks. I doubt they can understand half of the rules and regulations listed.

Come July 1st when our free stickers expire there will be a lot of controversy, if not just protests about this. Mind you, protesting happens on the regular in front of city hall every month or so.