Give thanks! The annual winter parking ticket reprieve, courtesy the D.C. Department of Public Works, finally arrives this Friday, when the city will suspend alternate-side residential street sweeping for the season. The official release is just about to be posted to the DPW web site, according to spokesperson Linda Grant, but here’s the text from the announcement:The DC Department of Public Works (DPW) announced today that weekly (signed), residential mechanical street cleaning will end for…

This WJLA story, about a group of residents on the 1300 block of Quincy Street NW who all got parking tickets for street cleaning violations last week, would be just a normal amount of frustrating, instead of blood-boilingly infuriating, were it not for this little nugget:Pender went to the 4th district police headquarters to find our why he and his neighbors got tickets anyway. “I talked to him and said I got a ticket for…