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The title "Parken am Rande des Wahnsinns" translates to "Parking
on the Edge of Madness" in English.
Top: The street sweeper comes on Tuesday between 12 and 2 PM. Bottom: The new silly residential parking zone Z.>
Michael We have often described the catastrophic parking conditions in our neighborhood, but recently the situation has worsened. To make matters worse, there is now also the residential parking zone "Z," which is marked by appropriate traffic signs. Within this zone, you are only allowed to park for 2 hours on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. if you do not have the corresponding permit on your car.
The badge is only given to those who live on the respective street. Now, our place is on 24th Street, where there is no parking zone, only parking meters, so we're screwed, we don't get a badge, and we have to search in the few remaining side streets without parking zones until we're blue in the face! Initially, only a few streets had the regulation, but more and more residents couldn't find a parking spot and submitted petitions to have their street included in the nonsense as well.
We now have two cars, the old Perlman and the new rocket. Rundbrief 02/2008 The rocket is in the garage, Perlman has to spend the night on the street. But that also means that we can have the good old parking games again. Rundbrief 07/2001 The translation to English is: "Once a week, the street sweeper comes, and then the Perlman has to be moved, otherwise there will be a parking ticket that costs $40.
However, people are reluctant to give up a good parking spot, and many just drive away briefly, let the street sweeper pass, and then immediately squeeze back into the old spot. What tourists don't know, and locals are reluctant to reveal: Even if the traffic sign (illustration 1) states that the street sweeper passes through on Tuesday between 12 and 2 PM, you can still park there during that time frame. nachdem The street sweeper has driven through.
Through years of time-consuming studies, I have discovered that the street sweeper on 23rd Street, where street cleaning according to the traffic sign takes place on Tuesdays between 12 and 2 PM, passes by almost exactly at 12:25. I assume that the street sweeper follows a set schedule, which is established somewhere in the secret archives of the city of San Francisco, and which he must read, memorize, and then eat.
Documentary video: The street sweeper is coming to our area.
Before the street sweeper, what I call wasps drive. Rundbrief 07/2001 Here's the translation to English:
") those who distribute the parking tickets. (By the way, the official name of these cute three-wheelers, whose drivers wear bicycle helmets, is "Interceptor".) The trick is to move a car parked there around 12:15, lurk nearby, and as soon as the street sweeper passes through at 12:26, reclaim the old parking spot.
Since I always work from home on Tuesdays, I quickly leave the house at noon, get the car, and repark it. Recently, I even made a documentary video (see above).
Overregulation of this kind is sprouting up in San Francisco like mushrooms. The former city of revolutionaries has become a home for prematurely aged people in their late thirties who have nothing better to do than sit in their million-dollar homes, count their money, and start neighborhood initiatives when there are no parking spaces. Recently, we had parked the Perlman on Jersey Street in our neighborhood for almost a week, and technically, you're not allowed to do that due to a relatively unknown and absurd regulation: the maximum parking duration is 72 hours, after which you have to move the car at least one block away. No one really adheres to this, but sure enough, some desk jockey from Jersey Street stuck a note on our car and accused us with harsh words (see illustration 2). What an idiot!
And when the company Google picks up its employees with the shuttle in San Francisco and these buses rumble through the quiet streets at night, there is an immediate outcry. In illustration 3, you can see the corresponding... Thetranslation to English is: "Announcement in the neighborhoodnewspaper 'Noe Valley Voice' The headline, by the way, features the rarely used verb "to rankle." Look it up in the dictionary to see what it means. Among cool people, there is once again a tendency to move to the South American neighborhood of Mission or even to quite run-down areas like Hunters Point. Rundbrief 02/2008 ... to escape the wannabe alternatives in our neighborhood.
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