August 2021
Weighty Legal Matters
It goes like this: A woman received 14 parking tickets for overstaying the two hour limit on the streets of Saginaw, MI. She found a lawyer with nothing better to do and took the city to court, claiming her fourth … Continue reading
Strangely, Folks Prefer Larger Homes in the Burbs
According to a recent survey, Americans prefer to live in larger houses, with some land around them a few miles from schools, stores and clubs, than in smaller houses within walking distance of such amenities. I’m not sure one would … Continue reading
Micro Mobility
Wow! The City of Los Angeles has contracted with an electric scooter company (Superpedestrian) to locate 5,000 scooters in the city. They will be focused in areas of the metro that seem to be lacking in micromobity. Fair Enough. In … Continue reading
Read A Book
Reading can be recreation, like watching TV. Except that when you watch TV, no mental activity is required. You simply sit and it washes over you. When you read a book, your eyes, your brain, and dare I say it, … Continue reading
We have ‘Traffic School’, Why not ‘Parking School?’
In my previous blog I discussed the issue that cities were writing parking tickets to increase revenue and not necessarily to protect that asset, parking, or to change the way people look at parking, and parking tickets. More and more, … Continue reading
Is Parking Enforcement the “Canary in the Coal Mine?”
A blogger I read regularly posited that inconsistent parking enforcement will bring a downhill slide to a city. Wow! You can read that blog over at parknews.biz, War on Standards Parking Ticket Edition. The city in question was Washington DC. … Continue reading
The Baby with the Bathwater
I defy any of the so called “cancel” mob to find anyone, anywhere, that doesn’t have something in their background that isn’t perfect. Back in the day my boss was an ex FBI agent best described as a diamond in … Continue reading