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."
From the tire tracks, it is clear that this parkway-parked truck drove up the corner pedestrian ramp in the foreground
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.
Car parked on Koreatown sidewalk this afternoon - with citation on the windshield
L.A. County needs to embrace physically-protected bikeways, robust traffic calming around schools, and similarly transformative, safety-focused projects