Is parking on an unpainted street corner, without a handicapped ramp legal? - by operaghost
operaghost on 2/10/2006 at 06:40
I'm having a dispute with someone. There's a very wide corner of a "T" type street in a residential area, as opposed to a "+" type instersection, where both streets intersect. On a small bit of the corner is a fire-hydrant, with 8 feet of red paint, but the red paint only takes of 25% of the corner; the rest of the curb has no painting on it. Is it legal parking on the unpainted section of the corner? it seems that if it wasn't legal, they would cover the whole corner with red curb-paint, and not just the small section in front of the fire hydrant.
Gestalt on 2/10/2006 at 06:53
Rules about that sort of thing are generally set at the municipal level, so you'd probably have more luck asking someone off the street than people on the internet. It's a municipal thing up here in Canada, anyway. Up here, I think we're generally just forbidden from parking within X metres of the things, with X varying from city to city.
Gingerbread Man on 2/10/2006 at 07:28
You're not allowed to park within 15 feet of a hydrant anyway, and I'm betting you're not allowed to park within 3 feet of a corner in LA.
WingedKagouti on 2/10/2006 at 07:39
Check with your local police department, they will have a much higher chance of giving you a correct answer than a bunch of people in different countries with different laws.
Gingerbread Man on 2/10/2006 at 07:43
Or he could just look up the California Driver's Handbook like I just did. All these Internauts, and not one of them seems to know about Google. Shizzameful.
Nicker on 2/10/2006 at 07:45
Do you have cars in Caer Weasle, GBM?
Gingerbread Man on 2/10/2006 at 07:46
nigga we invented cars
Why do you think they come in so many colours nowadays?
Jakeyboy on 2/10/2006 at 10:18
as long as its black
you're not supposed to pull over (or park, I guess) near to a junction, corner, or anywhere that may cause obstruction or suprise (e.g, pull over in the middle of a long straight of main road, rather that just round a blind corner, so people have time to see you and slow down accordingly). Oh right fire hydrants. Oh right America. Oh never mind!
Kroakie on 2/10/2006 at 12:17
It's not illegal until you get caught, so park away!
Ko0K on 2/10/2006 at 22:02
Not sure if the Drivers Handbook is exactly the same as California Vehicle Code (CVC), but CVC 22500 (a) says that parking within an intersection is illegal. An intersection is defined as the apparent intersection (the square delineated by the corners) plus the outer imaginary crosswalk lines, which would look roughly like a cross in the case of a 4-way intersection. Whether it's wide or narrow, or painted or not has no bearing on the Code definition of an intersection.
