Parking Enforcement in Springfield

[Ernest Street]

Riverside has had the same old man cop ticketing for wrong direction for 10 years or more.I warn all new residents.
We have a LARGE problem with cars lining  both sides of the street (think Forbes) and Ironically the driveway will be empty. I listened to one jerk say he was sick of moving his car so his wife could get out...Whaaa!
Our other big problem is cars blocking the sidewalks...THEY should be warned or fined.
On another note,If you are meter parked.. watch for cops putting chalk marks on your tires and coming back after the meter has run out. It's not illegal to erase the tire mark when you go out to "Feed the Meter". It tells them if you have left and come back.

[JaxUnicorn]

I must agree that people should park facing the correct direction.  Every single day I come home from work, turn left into the alley and back out to pull into my parking spot in front of my house.  It is just plain lazy to do otherwise.  

And don't even get me started on the roundabouts...  just because you are on Pearl or Laura does not give you the right of way!  

[Springfielder]

I've not seen any JSO issuing tickets for the clowns who use Liberty and Walnut as their expressway. I see JSO zipping along way to fast on those streets as well.

As for the tickets for illegally parking the wrong way...it's about time....and as someone mentioned earlier, it's pure laziness and nothing more. I don't know why it's only Silver, could be that someone's complaint was finally heard by the right officer, or maybe there's a new officer patrolling that section and issued tickets.

I would love to see JSO start ticketing the idiots that constantly park in the alleyway, as if it's their person driveway...or the ones that pull up onto the sidewalk and block that.

[hooplady]

It's about darned time !  But like others have said it needs to be consistently applied in order for people to really change their behavior.  Sometimes when I round the corner from 10th onto Laura, there are about 3 cars parked on the "No Parking" side of the street, a couple parked the wrong way, and another few on the sidewalk.  It's gotten so bad I just laugh now.

There was a piece on roundabouts on Sunday Morning 2 weeks ago.  Although they are annoying they seem to reduce accidents.  Apparently the very fact that they are annoying causes drivers to pay attention.  In truth, although I've heard a lot of complaints about them I have yet to hear of a single accident at one.  Which I can't say for the stop sign at 7th & Market that drivers routinely blow through and get t-boned.

[Dan B]

What about ticketing folks who don't understand how to use the round-a-bouts?

Hey, Leave Cindi Alone!

[Springfielder]

Thanks Dan, I just lost my iced tea onto the keyboard 

[Sigma]

There was a piece on roundabouts on Sunday Morning 2 weeks ago.  Although they are annoying they seem to reduce accidents.  Apparently the very fact that they are annoying causes drivers to pay attention.  In truth, although I've heard a lot of complaints about them I have yet to hear of a single accident at one.  Which I can't say for the stop sign at 7th & Market that drivers routinely blow through and get t-boned.

Its not the round-a-bouts that annoy me, just the drivers who don't know how to use them. 

[cindi]

What about ticketing folks who don't understand how to use the round-a-bouts?

Hey, Leave Cindi Alone!

LOL, Dan remembers my roundabout phobia.  I will drive 50 miles out of my way to avoid those durn things.  I purposely don't shop at the little store on the corner because of my fear of the roundabout (walking or driving).  Don't get me wrong, I DO know how to use a REAL roundabout (ie. Boston) but geeze, these here just scare the stink out of me. 

[Sigma]

So now we know who took out the crape myrtle at Laura and 7th! 

[cindi]

LOL, nope actually quite the contrary - remember - 50 miles out of my way to NOT use them.  that kinda scary ranks right up there with the mathews bridge when it was still grated.  YIKES!

[Sigma]

    I think you've created a new phobia!

[danno]

I go out of my way to aviod them as well.  It's not me it's the other drivers.

[Dog Walker]

Wimps!  If you guys think those little roundabouts are scary, you should try the traffic circles in Europe.  Four lanes, a circle fifty yards across with six side roads coming into it and everybody at top speed changing lanes to get off at their preferred street.  And in England they do it backward!

I got stuck on one in Paris and went around three times before getting up enough nerve to cut across the lanes and get off.  Then I had to go back to the hotel and change.

[Ernest Street]

It's the closest thing to trading Paint "Nascar Style" that we have in Jax! I LOVE the look of terror on peoples faces as I continue on Park St through the 5-Points intersection. There are actually people at Hovan and the Diner that WATCH rush hour at the Point (I'm not kidding!)  I'll have a beer and a T-bone please...Or maybe a cider and a rear ender 

[danno]

Wimps!  If you guys think those little roundabouts are scary, you should try the traffic circles in Europe.  Four lanes, a circle fifty yards across with six side roads coming into it and everybody at top speed changing lanes to get off at their preferred street.  And in England they do it backward!

I got stuck on one in Paris and went around three times before getting up enough nerve to cut across the lanes and get off.  Then I had to go back to the hotel and change.

I am a fan of the roundabout.  I miss them.  Even the motorway junctions have them both on and off.  We were over not long ago and it all fell back into place, even in England where the do it backwards.