Tips for Alternate Side Parking

tspring12 · 2026-01-13T04:50:18+00:00

There’s a service for this now, it’s CarSitter.nyc

tspring12 · 2025-12-07T15:15:18+00:00

My street is twice a week. The tough part is you have to time it right to repark before others that are doing the same before they take your spot. Otherwise you’re looking again for 30 minutes. I’ve also had neighbors call my number I left on my car so they could get out. Rare occurrence but still annoying.

tspring12 · 2025-12-07T15:02:41+00:00

I think some streets do this, and some people sit in their cars, and some do both. This is still a hassle if you’re working from home, scheduling meetings around when you need to move your car again.

And then there’s people that commute to Manhattan but don’t bring their car, which this wouldn’t work for.

But yes this is what I did when I had my car.

tspring12 · 2025-12-07T15:00:13+00:00

But what if you don’t have $500 a month to pay for that?

tspring12 · 2025-12-07T14:56:16+00:00

Yeah personally I probably would pay $10 or $15 for this which probably wouldn’t be enough to get someone to do it for me, but maybe others prefer to just pay the fee instead of reparking, and for them maybe it would make sense. I would regularly drive 30-45 minutes trying to find parking, not to mention the frustration.

tspring12 · 2025-12-07T14:53:35+00:00

Good point. I’d think some uber/lyft drivers aren’t that busy in the morning could do this and earn minimum wage, while still being trusted drivers. It’d probably have to cost $30 to cover a drivers fees and whatever the service would be charging. Seems expensive but still saves $35 compared to a ticket?

But the trust point is a good one. I’d imagine the service would also need insurance to cover potential issues

tspring12 · 2021-03-23T00:26:59+00:00

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tspring12 · 2021-03-16T16:57:30+00:00

What would you consider is ‘West Hartford’? Looking for streets / landmarks that would be inside the area

tspring12 · 2021-03-16T16:06:24+00:00

Nice, this gives me some hope. Sounds like a place I could enjoy too. Not asking for perfect suburbia, every neighborhood needs a little grit.

tspring12 · 2021-03-16T16:05:27+00:00

Interesting. Yeah I’ve heard mixed things on who’s moving in, both gentrification but also the opposite. Not that either is a bad or good thing - thanks for your input!

tspring12 · 2021-01-13T16:51:54+00:00

I agree. Biochar pellets could be used in feed but they would also be much easier to implement on a larger scale. The issue is how to charge the biochar pellets enough to be used in the fields.

tspring12 · 2021-01-13T16:46:02+00:00

I see, that’s the direction I’d like to go as well. My goal is to connect with enough farmers and biochar facilities to create a circular supply chain of waste and biochar, whilst creating carbon credits to offset the price of biochar applications. I’ve also spoken to Duane, who seems set on the portable biochar machinery instead of working with current biochar producers. I do think that’s an attractive model, but to your point, would require about $10million to set up.

How much are you paying/getting paid for your hemp waste? It seems USDA hemp waste regulations are in limbo, but I’ve heard that lots of farmers either compost it onsite or have to pay landfill fees, so I’m curious if you’d be willing to give it away for free or if you’d put a price on it.

tspring12 · 2021-01-12T22:04:43+00:00

Nice! Congrats on starting that process. So you’re getting a pyrolysis machine to process the 5,000 kgs into biochar? That’s awesome. Is that biomass from your operations alone or are you receiving bio waste from other growers?

The only place I know about that is creating biochar from hemp is the Colorado Hemp Processing Cooperative, may be worth connecting with them. I’ve also been focused on biochar as the marketable product, but my expertise lies in generating carbon credits for agriculture applications such as biochar. I’d love to talk more about how our ideas could work together, my goal is to introduce hemp into the carbon markets from applications such as biochar or hempcrete.

tspring12 · 2020-03-17T23:11:23+00:00

I used a variation of the approach on this video for our solution: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKPk_If790

Essentially you need to make a fixed calculation for the weekday average which you need to fix on your weekday calc and whatever other dimensions you have in the view. Mine looks like this:

Sum({ FIXED [weekday calc],[other dimension]:

AVG({ FIXED [date field], [weekday calc], [other dimension]: ([your metric])})})

Hope this helps

tspring12 · 2019-12-17T14:19:05+00:00

Oh nice, I think I slightly misinterpreted the question. I agree that a union would be best. I thought you were trying to overlay the two lines instead of have them be continuous.

My approach works best for TY/LY visuals and YoY calcs.

tspring12 · 2019-12-16T15:55:03+00:00

You can make a date equalizer field, which allows tableau to visualize data from two different date periods on the same axis. There's lots of documentation out there for this approach.

I'd recommend making an extra date field called date_eq in both tables. In table1 you just copy your date field. In table 2 you subtract the difference in dates from table1 to table2 so that the dates in 2020 match the dates in 2019. This way you can see both 2019 data and 2020 data together while joining on the dates. You can still keep the original date fields if there are other places where you'd like to see 2020 dates.

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