USC Ticket Clock

Pick a street near USC to see its street-sweeping schedule and next sweep dates, when the sweeping officer usually shows up, and how often meter officers walk past. Most LA streets are swept every other week, even where the sign shows only the day. See an example

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    Summary Short answers

    Across campus

    Thursday, meter not paid
    Parked during street sweeping
    2 of 4weeks a month
    So is there a patrol schedule?
    Yes. Sweeping enforcement shows up at the same time on the same weeks. Meter patrols come in waves late morning, early afternoon and around 4 pm.
    3meter waves a day
    Sweeping Near campus

    Street sweeping runs every other week, and the officer usually comes in the first hour

    Street sweeping signs. LADOT says parking is legal on a street's off weeks, even where the sign shows only the day, and said officers would enforce street sweeping only on days that sweeping happens (LADOT, March 2021). The weeks on this page are from StreetsLA's list of posted routes; for the official schedule, look up your street at streets.lacity.gov.
    One block, every Tuesday for two years
    • sweeping tickets written (darker = more)
    • none written
    • city holiday
    When the sweeping officer reaches a block
    Time of the first ticket on each block on each sweep day, in minutes after the posted window opens.
    Meters Near campus

    Meters get three waves a day, plus Saturday mornings

    Meters near campus are enforced Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 8 pm. No meter tickets were written here on a Sunday. Across all the metered blocks, tickets come in waves: late morning, early afternoon and around 4 pm. The 3 pm hour has fewer, but tickets are still written then. On weekdays, 8–10 am is nearly empty, but on Saturday it is one of the busiest times of the week.

    Meter tickets per hour, all blocks near campus
    Average number written in each hour, per day. Holidays excluded.
    Checking against Curb Log's sensors. Meter tickets record the space ID, like C964, and those are the same IDs Curb Log's sensors use. From 12 May to 30 June 2026, 168 meter tickets were written on sensored spaces. For 83% of them, the sensor showed the space occupied at that moment. The ticketed cars had been parked for a median of 2 h 20 min, and half of them drove off within an hour of the ticket.
    Method How this was measured

    How this was measured, and what it can't tell you

    Data

    Blocks and sides

    I grouped addresses by hundred block and split each block by odd and even street numbers. Each block's line on the map is fitted through its ticket locations. Where odd and even addresses geocode clearly to opposite sides of that line, the panel names the compass side. Otherwise it only says "even" or "odd". A block needs at least 20 tickets of any kind in the two years to get a line on the map.

    Sweeping schedule

    The posted day, weeks and time come from StreetsLA's map of posted sweeping routes. Each route covers an area and is swept on two days, one for each side of the street. A side gets the route day that matches the weekday of most of its sweeping tickets, among the routes those tickets sit inside. A side needs at least 8 sweeping tickets for that. The few tickets written outside the posted time are left off the arrival strip. "Ticketed on X% of sweep days" counts posted days with at least one ticket. It excludes holidays and any day with no sweeping tickets anywhere nearby. The arrival strip shows each sweep day's first and last ticket.

    Meter patrols

    Uses USC class weeks only (fall and spring, spring break excluded), Monday to Saturday. A visit is a group of meter tickets on one block with no gap over 10 minutes. An officer who finds every meter paid leaves no ticket, so I adjust for those empty visits. The adjustment assumes the number of expired cars an officer finds on a visit is random (Poisson), so the average number of tickets per visit we can see tells us what share of visits wrote nothing. The dashed line and the "at least" figures skip that adjustment.

    Limits

    A ticket only appears when someone broke the rule, so quiet blocks look less patrolled than they really are. The meter odds assume you never paid. Officers may skip cars. USC term dates are approximate. Routes and staffing change, and none of this is a promise about next Thursday. Always read the posted sign, and for sweeping, the city's schedule.

    Sources
    About These pages

    Made by Citina Liang with Claude Code in less than a week. The page updates itself weekly. All sources are from official public data. LinkedIn · GitHub · citina.liang@gmail.com

    LA Street Rules
    Every block in the City of Los Angeles: its sweeping schedule, its meters, and what gets ticketed there.
    Curb Log
    Available parking right now on Vermont Ave by W 36th St, and how it usually changes on weekdays, from LADOT's parking sensors.
    SF Streets
    San Francisco block by block: whether you can park there and for how long, and, on foot, what gets reported to police and how often people walking are hit nearby.

    Not a guide to parking illegally. This page doesn't suggest parking anywhere, or at any time, the rules don't allow. It shows when and where LADOT has written tickets, so the rules on each block and how they're enforced are easier to understand. Past tickets don't predict the next one: an officer can come by at any time, and a quiet hour in the data can still end in a ticket.