San Diego (Fox 5 / Kusi) – The San Diego Police Department's application team gave 4,200 tickets for vehicles that have not been in accordance with the new California day law since it came into force on January 1.
The law makes illegal for drivers to park their cars less than 20 feet from a pedestrian crossing, on the side of the street which faces the pedestrian crossing.
“This is pedestrian safety,” said Erin Linen, supervisor of the application of the SDPD car park. “So, as a pedestrian crossing approaches, think of a very small child who walks at school, you will not be able to see them when a car is parked near the pedestrian crossing.”
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The SDPD car park application spent the first two months educating the public and giving warnings.
“We distributed 1,500 warnings for two months, it was a little blue underwear that we would leave on cars that we saw in violation,” said Longen. It helped pass the word before ticket office and application, March 1.
“We have written more than 4,200 tickets, which looks like a high number, but it is less than 10% of written tickets as an agency, and we write them both proactively and reactive, so that people use the Get it’s application to report violations in their neighborhood, so we answer them as well as in the community by seeing what we see,” said Longen.
She said that the most problems that the parking lot of the parking lot can be found in areas where parking is already difficult to find.
More specifically, normal Heights, North Park, Hillcrest, University Heights, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach and La Jolla.
The law applies to any pedestrian crossing, even if it is not a pedestrian crossing marked with the white lines in the street, and even if the sidewalk is not painted red, or if the sidewalk is not painted red, a full length of 20 feet.
“Remember that certain red zones have been painted before this law, so some of them may only be 5 feet, but we have to give this 20-foot authorization,” she said.
A ticket for violation of the new law costs $ 117, which is mandated by the state.
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