As of yesterday, the city of Los Angeles has resumed ticketing cars parked in parkways. As many SBLA readers are aware from pastcoverage, due to a lack of city enforcement for the last few years, parkway parking has become somewhat common in many of L.A.'s population-dense neighborhoods including Koreatown, Westlake, and Westwood.
The "parkway" continues to be a confusing term for many L.A. residents. The term refers to the area between the sidewalk and the curb. The official city of L.A. definition for parkway, clarified recently, is "the area of the public right-of-way not intended for vehicular use between the sidewalk and the curb (or where no curb exists between the sidewalk and the public street), which the City has reserved for landscaping and utilities."
Parkway parking is generally accessed by cars driving on sidewalks. Driving there endangers pedestrians and damages sidewalks not designed to carry cars.
On a trip through portions of my Koreatown neighborhood this afternoon, there appeared to be fewer illegally-parked cars than there typically have been lately, but still quite a few. Many of these cars had citations on their windshields.
Bike Month continues, Metro 91 Freeway widening, Destination Crenshaw, Culver City Bus, Santa Monica MANGo, Metro bike lockers, Metro Sepulveda Transit, and more
Short newly protected bike lane on Laurel Canyon Blvd, extensive NSFV bus improvements under construction this month, and scaled-back G Line plans should get that project under construction this summer