Why do I see no parking signs everywhere that lists odd times and days where you cannot park there. What goes on at times like 3am on a Wednesday morning making it unacceptable to park?
IME, it’s for street cleaning. But 0200 - 0700 is a bit odd. Where I lived in L.A. it was 1000 to noon.
That’s probably when they bring in the street cleaning trucks. If people are parked there, they can’t sweep.
What do you mean by an “even” Wednesday? I didn’t know days of the week could be even or odd…
And yeah, it’s for street cleaning.
I’m not totally sure, I assume they mean the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
Maybe it’s the week number? (there are about 52 weeks in a year)
Though, I think we swedes are pretty alone in numbering weeks.
Around where I live, it is because they don’t want people to leave their cars parked somewhere after a rowdy evening. There are a lot of bars in the area and this can be a problem. This is according to the local peace officers, anyway. If your car can’t be parked there at 3am on Wednesday morning, it can’t be there all night.
This might explain a parking lot with such rules.
I assume the title means that you can’t park there, even on Wednesday night.
These things are extremely loud during the day, I doubt the midnight hours are a common time for street sweeping.
They’re usually scheduled for late night-early morning because they don’t interfere with traffic that way. They’re slow. Also loudish, but people tend to sleep through them.
No, but dates can be. Wednesday the 20th of May is even, but Wednesday the 27th of May is odd.
The other reason, aside from street sweeping, is to make sure the spot is used for parking, not long-term storage of non-running vehicles. This way, nobody can just leave their car there for a year at a time.
When I was in college, they had street cleaning from 10PM to 4Am MOnday, Weds and Friday.
They seldom cleaned the streets…maybe once every couple of weeks…but the cops were out there everytime ticketing.
I just assume they put the signs up for revenue generation
In my town there is no parking on any street from 2am to 6am. It’s to ensure “quality of life,” by which they mean “no multi-unit apartments” (because you wouldn’t be able to own a car and get to work). Here it is pretty clearly a class issue.
In DC there are lots of streets with no parking during rush hour7am-10am and 4-7 IIRC. That’s because they turn the parking areas into active lanes.
These all make sense. Thanks for answering this question!
I don’t quite understand. What do you mean by “no mult-unit apartments”?
Low-rise (2-3 story) apartment buildings. They aren’t dense enough to warrant the cost of constructing underground parking, and if you’re in the right part of a certain town, it’s too expensive to buy up the land for surface parking.
Thus, the tenants invariably start parking their cars on the street. Prohibiting the parking of these cars on the street is a way to ensure that the building never gets built.
Yeah, it’d probably take me until 7 am on Wednesday just to figure out what week number it was.
Judging by the context, I think that means single-family apartments only - ie., no roommates or any other arrangement that might require multiple cars (and might have parties or something! :eek:)
It’s also a way to ensure that homeowners provide and use off street parking for their vehicles, instead of using the street as their personal automobile storage.
My town has no overnight parking, and some neighboring towns do. You can always tell when you cross the line, because the curb goes from car-free to car-lined, instantly, and often the houses don’t even have space for a driveway, everyone parks on the street.
Surely if you have enough driveway space for your cars, you wouldn’t need to park on the street.
It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of thing, but I’d also bet the neighboring town has alot more multi-family, multi-unit apartments
In neighborhoods near a university, nearby residential street parking tends to get filled up with students’ cars that don’t get moved until the weekend. Sometimes, they’ll cope with that by requiring parking on the opposite side of the street every other day.
Some jokers define a university as a place with 5000 students, 40,000 seats in the football stadium, and 3000 parking spaces.