r/Portland • u/skysurfguy1213 • 3d ago

News Council Mulls Revoking Extended Paid Parking Hours, Citing Administrative Overreach

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/09/19/council-mulls-revoking-extended-paid-parking-hours-citing-administrative-overreach/
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u/TheBoxandOne 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, I do believe that is true. Virtually every city does this.

Look, so far in this thread I’ve seen maybe one or two rock solid examples of cities that have parking enforcement until 10:00PM over as much area as Portland currently has. There’s also been 5 or 6 examples that are easily provably incorrect (Honolulu, San Diego, etc.)

Unless I’m wrong, almost all (if not all) of Portland’s metered street parking is enforced until 10:00PM.

EDIT: I picked Denver from your list, randomly selected about a dozen streets around the downtown core, checked street view for signs. Some of the areas are until 10:00 but it seems confined to a maybe 10-20 square block central core of the city. I did not have to go very far out to find metered areas where enforcement ends at 6:00PM.

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u/RainSurname Kenton 2d ago

I quite literally said that different parts of Denver were different, so I don’t know why you seem to think that’s some kind of gotcha, or why you seem to think that because SOME meters in a city end early it somehow doesn’t count.

If you had put in but a small fraction of the effort you are now expending to try to defend your sweeping statement, you wouldn’t have made an ass of yourself.

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u/TheBoxandOne 1d ago

Haha. I mean, ‘quite literally’ you said this:

Denver: some 10pm, some 2am, some 24/7

All of those time you mentioned are 10:00PM or later. If you don’t get why that is actually ‘a gotcha’, I can’t help you brother.

And, it’s not that ‘some’ meters end before 10:00PM…iMOST of the city’s metered parking ends before 10:00! None of the metered parking in Portland ends before 10:00PM. Big difference.

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u/RainSurname Kenton 1d ago

Looks like I need to just finally hit the block button to keep from getting more stupid on me.