China News Service, July 3, according to the US "World Daily" report, a few days ago, with the economic restart, the parking law enforcement in San Francisco, Oakland, USA began to be strict. Especially in some core streets of Chinatown, trucks are only allowed to be unloaded from 7 to 10 in the morning, and some Chinese people are not aware of it, so they still park for free as before, so they received a ticket.
A few days ago, a friend of Auckland Chinese Sue received a ticket for parking illegally because he didn't understand the regulations. Sue said that at 8 o'clock in the morning, a friend came to a supermarket on 8th Street to buy food. When he saw that there were free parking spaces on the roadside, he stopped. Ten minutes later, a friend came out of the supermarket and found that he received a $83 parking ticket.
"Friends don't usually go shopping so early, usually in the afternoon. But now the epidemic is serious, so I want to avoid people in the morning and reduce contact. But the food money for this shopping is not as good as the amount of a fine, too much That's it!" Sue said.
Sue's friends didn't understand English well, so she asked her for help. After checking the ticket, she discovered that it reads "No Parking Yellow Zone". "My friend was also puzzled, because the yellow area on the ground was not painted, and the display also indicated that there was no need to pay for the time being. Because of the epidemic, the traffic and people in Auckland were greatly reduced, and the roadside parking spaces were not charged, so she rested at ease."
Sue wondered at the time whether this was related to Auckland's new regulations. So she went to the scene to check, confirming this conjecture. It turned out that Auckland will start tolling locations in some streets of Chinatown in 2019, and implement new regulations that only allow trucks to be loaded and unloaded between 7 am and 10 am, and offenders will be punished.
Sue also found that many Chinese are unaware of the new regulations. The sign is hung relatively high, and there is no warning in Chinese, only the small sign unloaded by the truck is on the other side of the display. During the epidemic, parking is free, and if you do not look carefully, it is easy to overlook the sign.
Sue also believes that the truck loading and unloading time is too long, up to 3 hours in the morning, the normal shopping people are very inconvenient. "Although there are dedicated parking spaces, at other times, you can still see trucks parking side by side and occupying the lane, which has not achieved the desired effect."
Sue said that after receiving a parking ticket, she could have gone to the parking law enforcement department to make it clear, but friends were worried about the outbreak and could only pay $83. "The epidemic has reduced everyone's income. I still hope that the municipal government can be more humane when it comes to law enforcement."
It is understood that Auckland will restart the on-street parking fee regulations on July 6 and turn around parking spaces in time to better ensure that shoppers have parking spaces. And as early as June 1, the city government began to investigate and deal with illegal parking in the Yellow Line and other places. (Liu advanced)