Bad news for those in La Jolla, California Police in San Diego revealed they have written thousands of tickets in the last two months, fining drivers over $100 for a controversial law that other cities, including San Francisco, have decided is too difficult to enforce.

“The San Diego Police Department's Parking Enforcement team has issued 4,200 tickets to drivers who violated California's new daylighting law, the department's supervisor Erin Longen told SFGATE in an email. The law, Assembly Bill 413 that began being enforced on March 1, prohibits drivers from parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk. It applies to all crosswalks — including unmarked crosswalks without white lines on the street. Many curbs are not painted red to the full 20 feet, creating confusion for some drivers.”  As announced in both the San Francisco Standard and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers:

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/california-city-issues-thousands-tickets-law-20305037.php

There is no mention of any improvement in pedestrian safety, the oft touted claimed benefit of the Assembly Bill. 

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