Reporting Bike Lane Parkers

When I heard about Bike Lane Uprising I thought it was super cool! And, it is super cool to use. You take a photo of a vehicle parked in the bike land and it uses magic to identify the vehicle type and read the plate and get your location and add it to the database. Cool. But… it doesn’t report it to your local parking enforcement so they can deal with it. It should though! I wish the technology behind Bike Lane Uprising was integrated into the local reporting system, but what we get is… mke.citizencomplaints.org A 1990s web site form where I often get “null” in one of the fields if I try to select a location. Sigh… but you know what? It actually works. I’ve used it to report vehicles parked in the bike lane, and they’ve received tickets. I’m going to walk through the process of how I do it. (Note: Obviously this guide only works for the City of Milwaukee, so you’ll need to localized this guide for other places.) Capture Data If you see a car parked in the bike lane you could stop and…