scott fIt is now illegal in California to park a car within 20 feet approaching a marked or unmarked crosswalk (i.e. most intersections), even if the curb is not painted red.
Cities can’t write tickets for this until Jan 1, 2025 but can write warnings now.
SFMTA's page on daylighting now summarizes this law and emphasizes it applies even if there isn't a red curb painted. It suggests they actually will issue warnings for this in 2024. Good sign? https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/daylighting
Let’s get some warnings written and an education campaign started and save both lives and thousands of gallons of paint.
Daylighting
UPDATE: On November 11, 2024, the SFMTA will begin issuing written WARNINGS for vehicles parked within 20 feet of any crosswalk in the direction of approaching traffic. Starting January 1, 2025, the SFMTA will begin issuing CITATIONS to comply with California law. Fines will start at $40.
Patrick Cherry@scott Great news! If someone other than the city paints the curb red, is that enforceable with a full citation, not just a warning?
@pcherry I don’t know how the law handles guerrilla painting, which is a problem here in the opposite direction. People have been known to buy gray paint/primer and cover up the city’s official red paint
It’s not affected by this new law, in any event. This is just about not needing to paint in these scenarios
Ariel Waldman@scott Do you know how we can request city enforcement/painting of daylighting on specific intersections? I know 1 in particular that would be so much safer that I'd like to advocate for.
@arielwaldman enforcement is through calling 311 or SF311 app/website - Blocked Driveway or Illegal Parking - Other Illegal Parking
@scott thank you! submitted my first report!
@scott welp. they closed my report by just sending a cop and doing nothing. guess I need to still figure out how to request curb painting?
@arielwaldman sorry I misunderstood your question. That report type is for when the curb is already painted red and being parked at.
@arielwaldman per the state law, SF could write a warning in the situation shown, but not ticket until 2025 (unless first painted red), and PCOs might not be trained in the new law yet.
@scott yeah :/ I would just like to make sure the intersection is on a list to eventually be painted red because it is so dangerous as currently set up.
Michal Migurski 🍉@scott Wow. I’ve been to a few maddening hearings with people testifying against parking removal, love that it’s simply going to happen at the state level with this.
Luis Villa@luis_in_brief @scott Oof I hope the enforcement mechanism isn’t disproportionately visited on, you know.
woolie@scott absolutely zero chance this will ever be enforced in Oakland, lol.