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You'll probably find a high correlation with the street cleaning dataset (if there is one). Nearly all of the tickets at the top of the leaderboard are street sweeping violations.

I wonder if street cleaning is net profitable for the city once you factor in tickets. That would make cutting the cleaning frequency [1] a doubly bad idea.

[1] https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/18/san-francisco-city-hall-st...

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there is -- https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Map-of-Street-Swe...

"undergoing maintenance" but spot check of data looks correct to me.

Street cleaning tickets are given efficiently and enforcement is conducted to minimize the time that people can't park. 2-4 parking officers drive in front of the street cleaning vehicles and ticket everyone parked. if you're watching at the time you'll see almost every car on the street pull out in front of the officers, circle the block and park right back in the same -- but now clean -- spot. those that don't get tickets.

Some day the forward facing cameras on your car will read the street cleaning signs and warn you before you park and notify you if you are still parked there when street cleaning day/time is approaching. The nuance is that you are allowed to park after the truck has gone by (in SF).

https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/drive-park/how-avoid-pa...

Unless a less frequent schedule makes it easier for people to forget when it's happening, leading to more people to ticket...

(Just a random hypothetical thought, I'm not saying that is the case or their motivation, only that it theoretically could be)

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