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Q: Are parking violations actually enforced in your city?

Zhuhai has cars littered on all roads, the "downtown" area does have parking meters and in a small area seems to have permanently stationed people writing tickets. The rest of the city, not as much. In my neighborhood parking is generally prohibited on the streets, lots of cars. About once per month a couple of traffic police officers will take a walk and stick a ticket to all cars. It seems to have zero effect as cars are parked there again the next day.

10 years 46 weeks ago in  Visa & Legalities - China

 
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I don't think so, cars park in bike lanes and on sidewalks. The cars parked on the sidewalk near my building have to drive a way to park there because the sidewalks have barricades around them. The sidewalk tiles get broken and often at night I have to weave in between the cars to walk, They park any way they can and are blocking cars if they wanted to get out.

 It's weird that China's cities are mostly so new and new streets but no parking provided.

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well, it is obvious if you look at neighborhoods from the 80ies and 90ies that the comrades did not intend for the average Wang to become owner of vehicles with more than two wheels. E.g. the complex I live in has very large underground parking areas, the problem with them of course is that the price for a parking spot it 200000RMB or, because not even half the parking spots are sold, you can rent a spot for several 4 or 500 per month. So a monthly parking ticket is most likely the economical choice. 

 

tragically I find it also difficult to find places to park bikes. 

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I paid 5 for 6 months to park my scooter, I think I was supposed to pay that every month but didn't and the guards wanted me to pay them also, but I wouldn't. The guards were yelling at my girl friend one day and I butted in, told them they could not talk to her like that and made like I was really mad. My girl friend got mad at me, stupid rude foreigner.

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They are here. I regularly see cars with tickets on them. But that's just the problem, I REGULARLY see cars with tickets on them.  No one gives a shit.  I saw a Porche, i think, with 2 tickets on.

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Parking violations? Geez, NO violations are enforced here. None. Ever. Cars rule. OK?

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I don't think it's heavily enforced in Beijing. Hence my ill-received rant a few weeks ago about a**holes parking on the sidewalk and me wondering why there aren't more parking garages.

 

Either that or people don't care and chalk the occasional ticket up to the cost of having a car here. 

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Back home, I lived for a while without a dedicated parking spot. A side street had paid parking but free in the timeframe 10PM to 7AM. My alarm clock was set accordingly so I could set off for work before getting a ticket, using the snooze button was penalized with a fine equivalent of 6-700RMB, each time. Tickets time stamped just a couple of minutes passed 7AM, those people couldn't have been more punctual if I had let them sleep in my car. 

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Hahaha. This used to happen to me all the time too. Its uncanny how traffic cops in so many places are able to be everywhere at once when the clock hits 7 am.

 

I definitely don't miss getting parking tickets here.

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Parking violations?  Nada.  Zip.  Zero.  In my 2nd-tier city here on the coast, there are no parking meters, no meter maids, no above-ground car parks, nothing.  Not to mention other violations like running red lights, speeding, making prohibited U-turns, etc.

That said, once City Hall comes to their senses and realizes how much money they can add to the public coffers (and their own pockets) by actually ticketing people and collecting fines, then maybe things will improve.  I'd love to start a parking meter biz here.  Be a millionaire overnight.  (And make a few pals down at City Hall rich in the bargain, too.)

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in my city they write the tickets and take a photo of the car, when they renew the annual plate fee, they have to pay all the outstanding tickets but a 100 to 200 rmb a pop they just pay. the fines need to be higher.

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No, why?

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See the typical Chinese answer

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Most cities are new, new buildings, lovely sidewalks, wide streets, bit there doesn't seem to be any planning, no sewers, no parking. Where do people expect to park. parking tickets do nothing, just revenue. Where I grew up the cops came around nightly and chalked all the tires and came back and wrote tickets. I never saw a problem because the streets were never full of cars parked..just revenue,,another usless restriction that I hate about home.

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I see the local meter maids writing tickets and sticking them on the offending vehicles pretty regularly.  Even got one myself one time.  But, a friend of mine who was with me at the time informed me her cousin/brother could "take care of it".  I'm guessing most people in this little town have a "cousin/brother/friend" who can take care of these annoying little pieces of paper for them.  So the conclusion is, tickets are written, but the actual enforcement is another story.

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