TICK-ED
While my intent is to blog about design and all the wonderful ways creativity finds its way into every day life, I have to pause for minute to express a thought on parking tickets.
My car seems to be on the radar for Greenwich Police. Twice in two days, I have returned to my car to find a issued fine. The biggest surprise was a ticket on Sunday in the parking lot across from L’Escale. The ticket at $55.00 not only threw me for a loop but killed my theory that no one gets tickets on Sunday.
Websites such as appealnow.com argue that local authorities have moved away from: using parking tickets as a traffic flow measure and towards a revenue generation model, their staff have been under increasing pressure to ‘perform’.
While I don’t attest that is the case in my infraction, I was upset to learn that indeed I was ticketed in an almost vacant lot on Sunday.
As luck would have it, or lack there of… On Monday I parked quickly on Greenwich Avenue to enter the Post Office to mail my infraction. Currently construction in the area prevents parking close to the post office and monitoring traffic flow. I was forced to park further away then anticipated and didn’t have any quarters to spare.
Once again, a ticket greeted me on the way out the door! The adage, “time is money” never rang so true. Ten minutes and a $25.00 fine. That’s more then minimum wage!
Be that as it may, I am now digging deep into my pocket to pay my tickets and issuing my own warning in town. What use to appear to be a laid back policy on parking now seems to be anything but!
Samantha –
As you found out the monies go directly to the state of CT. Cheers and no more tickets.
Comment by Harold2 — August 19th, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
Maybe not Harold. Maybe the state of Conn sends Greenwich the money.
In Rye, the city gets the fine $ and I think in all towns now they are using tickets to increase revenue
Comment by Susie — August 20th, 2009 @ 9:07 am