Re: Parking for dinner

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From: Arne Adolfsen
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:55

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Julian Macassey wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 18:02:46 +0000 (UTC), Meg Worley
> <meg@steam.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > I understand completely the neighborhood's desire to control street
> > parking, but nothing darkens your temper like block upon block of
> > those signs reading NO PARKING BETWEEN 6PM AND 6AM.  And the one
> > time that we pretended we hadn't seen the sign (in Sawtelle), the
> > coppers nailed us within 45 minutes.
>
>         West Hollywood used to make over $10,000,000.00 a year in
> parking fines. They love restricted and non existent parking, it
> is good for revenue.

I lived on a street in WeHo from before incorporation to six years after
(we're talking 12+ years) where we neighorhood folks actively fought
against those street control signs, special passes, and all the rest of
it.  We won on my block, then, anyway.

Arne
adolfsen@earthlink.net

P.S. For ba.food relevance, check with Meg "The Twirls" Whorley

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