For One Glorious Morning, a Website Saved San Francisco From Parking Tickets
Reece Rogers
created: Sept. 24, 2025, 12:43 a.m. | updated: Sept. 26, 2025, 11:18 a.m.
Car owners in San Francisco fed up with parking tickets had a brief moment of respite on Tuesday thanks to a website called Find My Parking Cops.
I’m using the past tense to tell you about it because shortly after the site went live, the real-time data feed powering it went dark.
He got the idea for this one after looking at all of the information listed on the parking tickets issued by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
But rather than people you know IRL, this site showed the trail of tickets issued by parking enforcers as they zipped around San Francisco in their tiny single-seaters.
“It seems each possible ticket number follows a pattern: add 11, except add 4 if the last digit is 6.
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