newbie question on motorcycle parking

Hi,

I've noticed some bikes park between cars in metered parallel parking
places. Is this legal? This isn't mentioned in the DMV handbook.

Thanks,
Ken

 

It's generally legal, but Berkeley tickets it. If the meter expires,
all of the vehicles in the space can be ticketed.

R, UB

 

....and if someone with a handicap card (meter exempt) parks their car
where someone you parked between left, YOU will get the ticket.
Trust me, I know this!

barbz

 

Its a GREAT way to park if you have a bike you need to replace and have
really good comprehensive insurance.

I dont think its against the law to park multiple vehicles in one space as
long as they fit. So you might not get a ticket.

Phil Scott

 

Can anyone tell me whether the meter exemption for handicap is Federal
or state? My mom in MA has one and hasn't been able to find out for
sure where she can park (other than blue spaces).


R, UB

 

I don't know about whether it's federal or state (though it's looking to
be local from these later links), but my father-in-law in Boston was
told by a judge to free up the blue spots if he could find a meter (and
use his placard).

I don't think it was so much of a "you're not handicapped enough to
deserve a close spot" so much as the blue spot was more designed for
short term access to the stores on the street and not for his all-day
parking for work halfway down the block. And anyway, he could probably
find a closer metered spot.

Interestingly, this link
http://citypaper.net/articles/052500/cb.citybeat.disabled.shtml seems to
indicate that in Philadelphia it is a local ordinance. Likewise, here
http://www.ci.great-falls.mt.us/people_offices/cdev/parking/disabled.htm
even handicapped spots are metered, so obviously anyone with a placard
has to feed the meter no matter what spot they're in. And another
gratuitous link- http://www.dol.wa.gov/vs/dpfaq.htm#metered

But to answer your mom's question for Massachusetts, there's the Mass.
Metered Parking Space Exemption - G.L. c. 40, S 22A-
http://www.infofind.com/library/disability/parking.htm
No, I'm not going to take the time to find the actual statute.

-mark

 

which is why I always park my bike near the MIDDLE of a empty car space if
one is available... other bikes are free to share with me. any cage that
tries so will be across two spaces, which hopefully is a ticketable
offense.

 

I lived in SF in the 60s, moved out in 1970, and never looked back.
About the only place I stop there most of the time is for a red light.
When I've got to go through the city, I generally take the western-most
edge (up 1 to skyline to great highway to geary to 30th to camino del mar
to lincoln to GG bridge...)

 

I believe that in Berkeley you can do this only if you stay 3 feet away
from the incumbent vehicle. And if that vehicle should move and be
replaced by another that takes up one of those feet, I'll bet you have to
explain it to a judge.

-tc