Curb your wheels – even on flat roads – or get $50 ticket [View all]

[Liberal_in_LA]

Residents along Chenery Street in Glen Park have been perplexed in recent days to learn they live on a hill. Common sense would say the stretch just east of the canyon is flat, but when you’re talking about the Municipal Transportation Agency, common sense doesn’t always come into play.

Several residents have been shocked to receive numerous citations for $50 apiece for failing to curb their wheels when parked on the street, tickets they’ve never received before. There’s apparently a petition to fight the citations in the works and a pledge by some not to pay up.

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So the most likely scenario is that there’s a new officer on patrol along Chenery Street who is taking Muni’s rules very, very seriously. After all, the code states that drivers must curb their wheels “on any perceptible grade” which technically is one of at least three percent. In hilly San Francisco, that’s pretty darn flat.

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/04/30/curb-your-wheels-even-on-flat-roads-or-face-s-f-muni-wrath/?tsp=1