With the meters changing to twenty five cents every twenty minutes instead of thirty minutes, paying the $1.00 late fee within one hour can at times be impossible. As you can see from this ticket, they came in after the one hour and were billed $10.00 for having their meter run over.
I know from personal experience, just when you think there's going to be a short meeting, things start dragging on and the next thing you know you're over your time. This particular person was not at all happy about their ticket as they frequent the City every day and the City has become very strict on their one hour policy.
hat do you think about all of this? Has it happened to you? Do you think a $10.00 fine is fair?
Love this blog, but there must be more significant stuff than this.
ReplyDeleteFair? No way. Greedy? Right on the button. Try having to attend a hearing or trial at the courthouse and have to leave to feed the meter. You're kinda stuck with that fine.
ReplyDeleteIf the "council majority" hadn't voted to spend $30,000 on a parking study they rates wouldn't have needed to be raised for another three years (or another solution put in to place to keep an adequate maintenance fund).
ReplyDeleteThe city is lucky anybody goes downtown period. That's just what we need is another reason to deter people from visiting downtown.
ReplyDeleteI paid $45 for a similar violation at my university, so as much as they are gouging me, $10 sounds a lot better than $45.
ReplyDeleteDo the crime, pay the fine!
ReplyDeleteIs it any wonder that the downtown is suffering from a lack of shoppers? You can drive to the mall, PARK FOR FREE, not risk a ticket, visit a huge variety of shops, in a clean, safe environment.
ReplyDeleteThis is why downtown will never "revitalize"
I think there needs to be even more reasons not to go downtown. That will help our city!!
ReplyDeleteI went to the library, to return a book. I fed the meter and marked my time on the watch bezel, left the library with 10 min to the good. Found a ticket on my car window, said I parked in an area for only permits. so why was the meter there in front of my car? Rita the matron of the meter was no where to be found, no one was available to speak to, so i paid the $10.00 which really gets my goat. So my question, if the meter is in front of the car not on the sidewalk but physically in front of the car, why was i given the ticket for parking in a permit area ? If my meter had time on it why was i given the ticket? The time on the ticket indicated it was written about 5 min after I entered the library. Never again
ReplyDeleteI have to go down town quite often on business and find this to be way out of line. If you drop the money in the meter to fast it will only count one quarter instead of two as well. Try to go in the Government office building and get back out to your car in twenty minutes what a rip off Salisbury has become.
ReplyDeleteIf the meters weren't there, all of the employees from the downtown businesses would park their lazy a$$ in those spots leaving no close parking for patrons. Pick your poison
ReplyDeleteThis is especially almost impossible when you have to attend court hearings... what, jump up every 25 min. to go put more money in the meters? The judges love that I am sure, I would consider it disrepectful to the court. May be we need a judge to make a comment about this and something sensible could be done. I also received a $10 ticket.
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