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Swimming-Figure-8635 t1_j5fp1f1 wrote

Reply to comment by Scout1454 in why doesn't the PPA give a shit? by getnakedivegotaplan

Huge misconception that PPA is efficient or even gives a sh!t about illegal parking, aside from maybe a few blocks in center city. I've called their hotline to report the most egregious violations in areas they patrol, and it's a crapshoot whether they show up, let alone issue a ticket.

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Fattom23 t1_j5g0mjv wrote

I don't think the PPA gives a shit about anything other than time restrictions, but they're wildly efficient with those. They don't work for the general citizenry; they work for the person who wants to park their car in the spot you've got your car in (whether that's a permitted zone resident or someone else who wants to feed that meter).

If there were organized complaints about specific cars illegally parked in the crosswalk, I would actually suspect that there would be more action taken where the PPD is responsible. At least the last organization has to report somewhere about response times to emergency and non-emergency calls, so there's the faintest shred of accountability.

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mikewarnock t1_j5h35mo wrote

That is my experience. They only seem to ticket based on the two hour time limit. I see tons of cars parked way to close to the intersection all of the time and they seem to do nothing about it.

I have a theory that it has to do with the app they use to scan license plates to determine if you have a permit. I assume that the app automatically tags the time and location for each scan and when it detects a same location over the two hour limit for a tag it prints the ticket with no or little action required by the agent. However, if the agent wants to give a ticket for something like parked to close to the curb they have to take a picture, enter data, etc.

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