--- In hawaiibicyclists@yahoogroups.com, "Bike Oahu" <bikeoahu@...> wrote:
>
> HPD has ticketed bicycles locked to a sign post in front of my office
> building because they were positioned such that it made it hard for
> the mailman to open a mail box, so they can also ticket the
> adchoppers if they chose to.
>
Actually - it is illegal in the C&C to lock your bicycle to a signpost
period, whether or not is is blocking something and whether or not it
has been there for 24 hours or longer:

* Sec. 15-18.6 Parking.*

No person shall park a bicycle upon a street other than upon the
roadway against the curb, or upon the sidewalk in a rack to support
the bicycle, or against a building; and in such manner as to afford
the least obstruction to pedestrian traffic.


Further, the 24 hour parking limit applies only to parking "... upon
any streets within the [C&C]," so parking a bicycle off the street
does not violate the law (15-16-8). So, you are completely, entirely,
emphatically wrong in your assertion that the police can ticket this
guy for violating any existing C&C ordinance. You really ought to
actually read the Revised Ordinances of Honolulu (see
http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/menu/government/gov_resources/refs/index.htm
)
before you pontificate on what they say!

Aloha, - John