00:00Before we talk about parking, we have to talk about this. It's not that we don't have enough
00:03spaces in LA. It's that this piece of property, the curb, is being asked to do six different
00:09things. Bus stop, delivery zone, rideshare pickup, street sweeping, fire lane, residence only,
00:16and somewhere in between all that, your car. The rules exist because every curb is doing six jobs
00:22simultaneously, and every sign you see is just the city trying to schedule which job gets the
00:27priority on this block, on this day, at this hour. And when you know that, the signs stop feeling
00:34random and start feeling like what they actually are, a schedule. Here's what it costs when you
00:39don't understand the system. The single most ticketed offense is street sweeping. Not red zones,
00:44not meters, street sweeping. 4.5 million tickets in our nine-year data set. The base fine is $73. By
00:51the
00:51time late penalties kick in, the average ticket in LA costs $160. That is the price of $90.
00:57not knowing the schedule.
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