Meter Maids Jump the Gun in Fort Greene
It sounds like the traffic cops didn’t get the memo from DOT that the new alternate side of the street parking rules in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are not in force until Monday. According to this tip we got, they were just a little too anxious to start making everyone’s lives miserable again: I…
It sounds like the traffic cops didn’t get the memo from DOT that the new alternate side of the street parking rules in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are not in force until Monday. According to this tip we got, they were just a little too anxious to start making everyone’s lives miserable again:
I came home to Willoughby Street today to find cars all the way up the block with tickets (including mine). It seems a Traffic Agent Blackett decided to ticket everyone even though alternate side goes back into effect next week. I’d be interested to hear if other streets had this same problem.
How ’bout it: Anyone else get hit with premature ticketulation?
ban,
You would have been much better off pleading not guilty by mail (AFAIK you can’t do it on line if you want to include images or documents]. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to waste the time it takes to go in person.
A month ago, I was parked on a ‘clear’ of violations Throop Av (Bed Stuy) and the street cleaning was designated for 11am till 12.30pm (Mon and Thurs) I was issued a ticket at 8.14am for a Monday parking. I disputed the violation in person at the DOF -Downtown Brooklyn with pictures and all. After waiting for about 2 hours, the Judge told me to go take a pic of the entire block where I was parked AND to come back and show this to him?? I am self employed and this is just too time consuming. I was told that the reduced fine is applicable as I have asked for a hearing with the Judge. So, I just paid as there is NO way I could afford another 4 hours at the Department of Finance!!
Can anyone help???
I’m too tired to read all the comments above. I just wanted to mention one of those terrible winter snow’n’ice storms when Bloomberg suspended alternate parking. It was announced non-stop on TV and radio. Our car was under a snow bank from both what fell from the sky and the ploughs going back and forth on Greene Avenue.
The weather was just right for all this snow to harden into an impossible, iced layer that you could barely chip away at. I called the 88th and the person who answered the phone told me that, indeed, we had nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, when we went out to check out the state of the car, some idiot of a meter reader had mananged to yanked up one of the frozen-down, snow’n’ice buried windshield wipers just enough to damage it and slip a bright orange ticket under it. The whole block was one huge white/grey catepillar of cars covered in snow, ice and street muck. There was no way anyone was getting out of there THAT day.
Call back to the 88th and they told us to ignore the ticket…and I guess the damage to the wiper…
Hhhh…
bxgrl,
Not surprised, just disgusted.
Denton,
You’ve been lucky.
Limestone kid,
Definitely both and I’m sure many people pay when they’re not guilty, not realizing how easy it is to successfully plead not guilty on line [assuming you’re actually not guilty, although pleading not guilty when you ARE will get you an automatic offer of a reduced fine before your defense is read].
We also received some during the period when the alternate street parking regulations were not supposed to be in effect. We appealed them and they were all overturned. Instead of going through all the hassle of appealing more tickets we simple went back to following the old regulations even though we didn’t have to.
It seriously made me wonder whether the people who issue the parking tickets are all part of some great big conspiracy or whether they’re all just incompetent. Maybe it’s both. I’m sure they were able to collect on a number of the improperly issued tickets.
I have owned cars and or motorcycles in this town for 35 years, 10 in Manhattan. I have never gotten a parking ticket that was fraudulent. In fact If I get one every five years it’s a lot.
I wasn’t hit but my partner was. Boo DOT!
bob- and supervisors encouraging all the tricks surprises you? 🙂
Maybe the problem is the city doesn’t discriminate between tickets written legally and simply writing tickets. If they did, traffic agents would have the burden of making sure the tickets they give are for breaking the law. But the city deals in numbers- they tout the numbers of tickets written to show how much more “successful” they are at their jobs. the ral story they would rather you not know.
Broken link – sorry. Here it is:
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/07/16/bay_ridge/bay_ridge_courier/news/bay_ridge_courier_newsjvcfwmz07162009.txt