{"id":62044,"date":"2025-07-13T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/62044\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:53:09","slug":"philadelphia-parking-violations-report-obstructions-to-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/62044\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia parking violations: Report obstructions to PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Ee Durbin learned about the Philadelphia Parking Authority\u2019s mobility access violation reporting form<\/a>, they wondered how they could make it even easier for Philadelphians to report an issue that plagues the city\u2019s streets \u2014 what Durbin referred to as \u201cthe way that people choose to put their vehicles at a standstill.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Durbin is the technical lead for the volunteer group Philly Bike Action<\/a>, and on June 26, the group released Laser Vision<\/a>, a digital tool that streamlines the mobility obstruction reporting process.\n<\/p>\n

Instead of manually typing in the make and model of the violating vehicle, the location of the offense and other requested information to complete the PPA form, users simply snap a picture of the violation on Laser Vision \u2014 a car blocking a bike lane or parked on a sidewalk, for example \u2014 and the software reads the details of the image to autofill the form, offers a chance for corrections if necessary and submits it.\n <\/p>\n

Durbin said one user told them they\u2019ve gotten it down to a 15-second process.
\n\"EeEe Durbin, tech lead for Philly Bike Action, shows off Laser Vision, a digital tool to easily report mobility access violations. (Gabriel Donahue\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

The concept is similar to Bike Lane Uprising<\/a>, an app that creates a national database of bike lane violations. But Durbin considers Laser Vision more effective because it doesn\u2019t just collect data \u201cthat theoretically could be used for advocacy in the future,\u201d but immediately sends it to the agency that has the power to correct the issues.\n<\/p>\n

When a violation is reported between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., PPA\u2019s patrolling hours, parking enforcement officers should report to the location to ticket the offender, according to Martin O\u2019Rourke, a spokesperson for the authority. The form\u2019s webpage notes that reports \u201cmay not result in immediate enforcement action.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Additionally, O\u2019Rourke said that if violations are frequently reported on \u201ccertain blocks or areas, we will inform our ticketing staff to make these areas a priority.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Durbin told WHYY News that the group doesn\u2019t just want increased enforcement of parking rules.; Instead, the group advocates overall for protected bike lanes so that drivers aren\u2019t physically able to access the same road space as cyclists.\n<\/p>\n

On July Fourth, 27 violations had been reported through Laser Vision by about 4 p.m. The day before saw 95 reports. And in its roughly two weeks of usage \u2014 about a week of beta testing occurred before its launch \u2014 more than 1,200 mobility access violations have been submitted to PPA. That is nearly a third of the number of total reports PPA received in 2023 across all violations, according to O\u2019Rourke. Though bike lane obstructions are the most common submission by Laser Vision users, that category was only recently added to the form.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have a question about Philly\u2019s neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[44544,5229,1448,2830,1311,12771,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-62044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-bike-lanes","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-planphilly","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114845555363364587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}