ARE YOU PISSED OFF ABOUT YOUR PARKING TICKET? After 4 years of living in inner-city Oakland I have invested thousands of dollars in keeping the streets clean just through street-sweeping tickets...and yet the streets are still trashed!
It is my goal as a concerned citizen to try to make your life a little easier by guiding you through the process I have been dragged through so many times already!
Have questions post them on my blog and I will do my best to research answers!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Parking & Street Sweeping Tickets: I HATE STREET SWEEPING TICKETS!
My car was parked on a street sweeping side but there was a note I placed on my car saying my car was inoperable because it was hit by a bus (I provided pictures on the note, and it was obvious by looking at the car). The previous day I was able to catch a ticket-er and she is the one who told me to do so if I could not be by my vehicle. So I come to my car, there is an envelop for a ticket but no ticket! I have no citation number, so how do I check if I have a ticket? And I do not want to pay for this ticket because AC Transit was completely unhelpful, and it is their fault it was still parked on the street.
Nickibleu...was this ever resolved? Did you get a ticket in the mail later? How did you find your citation number to pay it? I received an envelope but the ticket had clearly been stolen or blown away and I didn't get a notice until 2 years later from the city that I had a 2 yr old unpaid citation which was now $300+ that I had to pay. I'm interested in how yours was resolved?
CONTESTING TICKETS THAT AREN'T WRONG, BUT ARE UNREASONABLE
If a ticket has been written incorrectly or in error the argument that you make to contest a ticket is obvious. But if there is no apparent problem with the ticket but you think the ticket is wholly unreasonable in some way, is there a point in contesting it?
Certainly one such circumstance is the sudden enforcement of some aspect of the parking code after never having been enforced before (in your experience at a given location.) The abusive nature of the parking code is such that minor infractions can be difficult to identify and avoid but can result in outrageous fines.
Enforcement decisions are as important as the particulars of the parking code. I would contend that some of those particular are more for the purpose of identifying liability in circumstances involving parked cars and not to enable aggressive fine harvesting by relentless enforcement. For instance if parked 20" from the curb and my vehicle isn't causing a hazard I would like to think I would not be ticketed because I'm 2" further from the curb than allowed.
MY TICKET "NO PARKING SIDEWALK" $103 ...for parking in my driveway, which is too short from sidewalk to garage door to accommodate a car so the car hangs over the "sidewalk zone" requiring a pedestrian to walk on part of the driveway about 2' off the path of the sidewalk. I parked there on STREET SWEEPING DAY, as I often have over the past seven years, because I couldn't find a spot on the other side of the street. So, instead of getting a $66 ticket for obstructing street sweeping I got a $103 ticket for parking in my own driveway!
My car was parked on a street sweeping side but there was a note I placed on my car saying my car was inoperable because it was hit by a bus (I provided pictures on the note, and it was obvious by looking at the car). The previous day I was able to catch a ticket-er and she is the one who told me to do so if I could not be by my vehicle. So I come to my car, there is an envelop for a ticket but no ticket! I have no citation number, so how do I check if I have a ticket? And I do not want to pay for this ticket because AC Transit was completely unhelpful, and it is their fault it was still parked on the street.
ReplyDeleteNickibleu...was this ever resolved? Did you get a ticket in the mail later? How did you find your citation number to pay it? I received an envelope but the ticket had clearly been stolen or blown away and I didn't get a notice until 2 years later from the city that I had a 2 yr old unpaid citation which was now $300+ that I had to pay. I'm interested in how yours was resolved?
DeleteCONTESTING TICKETS THAT AREN'T WRONG, BUT ARE UNREASONABLE
ReplyDeleteIf a ticket has been written incorrectly or in error the argument that you make to contest a ticket is obvious. But if there is no apparent problem with the ticket but you think the ticket is wholly unreasonable in some way, is there a point in contesting it?
Certainly one such circumstance is the sudden enforcement of some aspect of the parking code after never having been enforced before (in your experience at a given location.) The abusive nature of the parking code is such that minor infractions can be difficult to identify and avoid but can result in outrageous fines.
Enforcement decisions are as important as the particulars of the parking code. I would contend that some of those particular are more for the purpose of identifying liability in circumstances involving parked cars and not to enable aggressive fine harvesting by relentless enforcement. For instance if parked 20" from the curb and my vehicle isn't causing a hazard I would like to think I would not be ticketed because I'm 2" further from the curb than allowed.
MY TICKET "NO PARKING SIDEWALK" $103 ...for parking in my driveway, which is too short from sidewalk to garage door to accommodate a car so the car hangs over the "sidewalk zone" requiring a pedestrian to walk on part of the driveway about 2' off the path of the sidewalk. I parked there on STREET SWEEPING DAY, as I often have over the past seven years, because I couldn't find a spot on the other side of the street. So, instead of getting a $66 ticket for obstructing street sweeping I got a $103 ticket for parking in my own driveway!