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In first two months of California daylighting law, San Diego police gives out 4,200 tickets

4,200 tickets given out in San Diego in first two months of California’s daylighting law

The law makes it illegal for drivers to park their cars within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on the side of the street that faces the crosswalk.

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I'm actually pretty happy for this enforcement. I think a lot about accessibility, and car owners that do this are causing a lot of issues.
You may also know from my post history that I'm also a frequent poster in the police problem community, so this is a rare thumbs up to those folks.
- Same. At first glance I felt a bit of trepidation, especially with the current state of American politics, but this is a good move.
If they are not being discriminatory and actually legitimately fining people, then I'd say this is a huge win.
The fact that over 4000 people were CAUGHT means there must have been tens of thousands doing it over those two months.
- ~~The only way they could be discriminatory with this campaign is if they disagreed with the owners bumper stickers. So I think it's safe to say that there was no discrimination.~~
  
  Given that most cities have areas with varying proportions of people of different ethnicities, yeah it can be discriminatory. They just target certain neighborhoods and know that those are far more likely to be people of a certain background. Not saying they did or didn't do it here, but that's how they can do things like that.
  
  It would be interesting to see a map with where the ticked offense took place with demographic data. There is. Fair chance that minorities get the short end on this.
  
  Well it could also depend on area, the type of car, the officer knows who owns the car. Discrimination can be subtle and unconscious a lot of the time.
Could someone explain why this is called daylighting? I get what it means and this seems like a very smart thing to do if you want to make walking safer, but the term makes absolutely no sense at all. If even tried to look it up, it bothers me. The only thing that would make a bit of sense is that they mean the crosswalk is no longer in the shadow, but that seems quite a stretch too.
- While I'm in favor of the concept, I want to garrotte the idiots who came up with and disseminated that stupid term. It should be called "Sightlining" because it increases everyone's line of sight, to help prevent vehicles from killing pedestrians and cyclists, and cyclists from injuring pedestrians as well. Or you could say it establishes a Visibility Zone. I failed to find an etymology or original source but if someone does, let me know.
- According to this source https://www.etymonline.com/word/daylight#798. It seems to refer to an old figuratove usage of the term daylight to indicate a clear space between two objects. That makes sense applied to the methods use in "daylighting" intersections since it's meant to create a visible gap for better visibility.
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about 6.1 meters
Of course They haven't marked any of this out with even the slightest consistency. Any excuse to let the road-pirates off-leash in good-ol' Cali. TwO MoNtHs ShOuLD Be eNoUgH ... yeah sure, I read more California and San Diego news than I really have any business doing, and this is the first I'm hearing of this law.

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