Fifty Shades of Parking

By the mailbox at my apartment complex, some more curb painting was done, and yet another parking sign added.  

From this angle, the parking rule changes four times in about 50 feet.  We have such a crunch of parking, with the sides of the drive just solid walls of cars after 8PM, that management can't come up with any plan that really works.  I'm pretty sure most of the red "Fire Lane" is false, just a sad attempt to keep one side clear at night.  So here we go from Fire Lane red to the freshly painting white spot about two cars wide: you can only park here to get your mail.  The next sign is the tiny space with red curb reserved for the actual mail truck -- it's only here for about one hour a day, but it would be beyond dumb if they couldn't park in from of the mailboxes they service.  Beyond that is Two Hour Parking by the pool.  Four different rules in under fifty feet.

And as the population gets denser, and more and more people have to pack into housing to afford the insane rents, it just gets worse every year.


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