"I regularly report parking here on the 311 app, and the result is always the same. Within a few minutes, SFMTA closes the request with "officer responded, could not locate". This is a lie. I live here and know that no officer responds. Yesterday, I did an experiment. I reported the restaurant owner's Porsche blocking the red zone. Sure enough, within 3 minutes, the report was closed with "officer responded, could not locate." I was standing there, waiting. No-one came."
"I reported it again. It was closed again. I reported it again, and SFMTA dispatch called me to yell at me for reporting it too much (and bizarrely, for using the word 'dude' in my report)!"
"Any car that's parked in the daylit zone is subject to enforcement. Using the bike corral is a resource-efficient way to build out bike infrastructure while bringing better visibility to an intersection."
Ernst Schoen-Rene, a tech worker and father living near Precita Park in Bernal, has filed numerous parking complaints through the 311 app about violations in daylighted zones. He reports that SFMTA consistently closes his complaints with "officer responded, could not locate," despite his presence at the locations confirming no officer ever arrives. After conducting an experiment documenting a restaurant owner's Porsche blocking a red zone, Schoen-Rene received multiple identical closures and was subsequently called by SFMTA dispatch and reprimanded for reporting too frequently. He expresses concern that children, including his middle-school-age son and students from nearby Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School, face safety risks due to unenforced parking violations. SFMTA acknowledges that parked cars in daylighted zones are subject to enforcement and has installed a bike corral at one intersection to maintain visibility.
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