Monday, July 19, 2010

Ala Wai Street Sweeping Days


Mondays and Friday mornings are street cleaning days on the Ala Wai. As you can see for yourself there's no cars parked in the tow away zone, or those that were, had been towed away already.


Then I saw these two rental mopeds. The mopeds weren't towed so I presumed that they got a pass while the street cleaning zamboni machine detoured around them. Ignorance is bliss? Well not quite so. As it turns out, the couple who rented the mopeds just moved into my apartment building. They were in the basement garage later in the day on their mopeds, and I asked them if it was their mopeds parked across the street this morning because it looked like the same mopeds. They said it was. I was telling them how fortunate they were not to have their mopeds towed. But then they mentioned they had gotten a double ticket.

4 comments:

OkiHwn said...

what is that dirt path in the grass?

RONW said...

Nate- I thought about mentioning the goat trail in the post but I figured nobody would have noticed it. Second thing that I guessed wrong on today.

Kay said...

Geeeee... you guys get your street cleaned? I've never seen them in our area.

RONW said...

Kay- that's mainly so people don't homestead on the Ala Wai. 20-years ago, during morning and afternoon rush hours, parking was banned, 5-days a week. Then they eliminated the rush hour restriction, and campers moved in and parked in the same spot for months. They already tried the street cleaning strategy one day a week, but campers would only move back after a few hours for the rest of the week.