Parking Ticket Question

[zstyles]

So today I was visiting a building downtown to look it over for our new office and couldn't find a spot anywhere except in the alley.

I saw a 30 minute parking sign on the wall of the alley and parked there as I would only be there 20 minutes, I come around 15 minutes later out and WHAM! There is a 30.00 ticket!

I don't see anywhere you can actually contest it except by paying it and pleading not-guilty and paying court costs(makes sense right) I took a photo and from what I read you CAN park in an ally as long as your facing the flow of traffic and not blocking traffic..anyone else have a more in-depth knowledge of this?

[jacobi]

You need to know that there is much scuttbutt about this right now downtown.  Supposedly the parking enforcement people all quit and the head guy is out walking the streets ticketing anything he can.  If you are in the right, challenge the ticket.  Maybe it will help get that guy fired.

[TheTed]

I'd like to see how much they increased revenue by giving that lady a bike. Before: never saw her. Never saw tickets. Now I see her and the tickets she's left behind constantly.

That bike had to have at least doubled ticket revenue. Expecting one person on foot to cover all of downtown was ridiculous in the first place. It can't be possible to walk every downtown street more than once during a day.

[TurismoDreamin]

I got a parking ticket in downtown once near TCC. It was for $20 and I never paid it. Moreover, I got a different car a few weeks afterward with a different tag and I doubt I will ever hear about that parking ticket again. From what I understand, the city hires a private company to take care of downtown parking and its meters. I've since been pulled over by the police and said parking ticket did not come up during a 28/29 or 42/43 records check. Additionally, to my knowledge, there is only one person assigned to passing out parking tickets downtown and they work from 8a-5p Monday thru Friday...just avoid coming back during that time lol.

[rdj]

Tulsa city employees patrol and write parking citations. 

They've had a car for a long time. 

Parking on the street is free downtown after 5 and on weekends.  As a result they don't patrol.

[Gaspar]

Went downtown to eat on Saturday for lunch and ended up parking a couple of blocks away at an American Parking lot.  Those lots make more money than developed space downtown.  I'm in the wrong business!  I calculated that the small AP lot that I parked in could rake in around $1,200 a day profit on a slow day.  Compare that with a restaurant on the same spot that would be lucky to net that!!!

The downtown parking racket is the way to go.

[zstyles]

I had just seen the bike person riding up and down checking meters right before I saw my ticket, its funny though basically the ticket says "pay it" or "pay it and plead not guilty and pay more"....

[custosnox]

I had just seen the bike person riding up and down checking meters right before I saw my ticket, its funny though basically the ticket says "pay it" or "pay it and plead not guilty and pay more"....

There should be a way to contest it without paying it.

[Townsend]

I try to do everyone a favor and take them off any car I see and take them to the recycling center. 

No reason for anyone to come out to such a let down as "dang, I got a ticket."

[Gaspar]

I try to do everyone a favor and take them off any car I see and take them to the recycling center. 

No reason for anyone to come out to such a let down as "dang, I got a ticket."

I take them off my car an put them on the car next to me.  That way when they call to contest it, all they have to say is "this isn't even my car!"

Works like a charm.

[DTowner]

I take them off my car an put them on the car next to me.  That way when they call to contest it, all they have to say is "this isn't even my car!"

Works like a charm.

In college I would reuse a parking ticket for a whole semester - park illegally and put the old ticket on the window.  At the end of the semester, pay the fine to get my grades released.  It worked pretty well for a couple of semesters, but then the campus parking cops figured it out.

[AquaMan]

I got a parking ticket in downtown once near TCC. It was for $20 and I never paid it. Moreover, I got a different car a few weeks afterward with a different tag and I doubt I will ever hear about that parking ticket again. From what I understand, the city hires a private company to take care of downtown parking and its meters. I've since been pulled over by the police and said parking ticket did not come up during a 28/29 or 42/43 records check. Additionally, to my knowledge, there is only one person assigned to passing out parking tickets downtown and they work from 8a-5p Monday thru Friday...just avoid coming back during that time lol.

That is curious. I received a parking ticket one morning while parked on Cherry Street in front of Cafe Cubana on one of the rare occasions that I had enough pocket money to indulge myself. Couldn't have been more than 10 minutes and since the Camarellis had closed, there were no other cars parked in front. I swear, I didn't even note that there was a parking meter there. Anyway, $20 ticket which I ignored. Soon I received a collection letter from a local law firm that the city must have contracted with demanding payment or else. They must have gotten my address from the OTC or tag agent. Wouldn't have mattered if I sold the car, threw it away or placed it on someone else's car like the old days.

A $25 cup of coffee. This parking meter stuff is short sighted and drives customers away. No one in the suburbs has to pay for parking to get a cup of coffee.

[custosnox]

That is curious. I received a parking ticket one morning while parked on Cherry Street in front of Cafe Cubana on one of the rare occasions that I had enough pocket money to indulge myself. Couldn't have been more than 10 minutes and since the Camarellis had closed, there were no other cars parked in front. I swear, I didn't even note that there was a parking meter there. Anyway, $20 ticket which I ignored. Soon I received a collection letter from a local law firm that the city must have contracted with demanding payment or else. They must have gotten my address from the OTC or tag agent. Wouldn't have mattered if I sold the car, threw it away or placed it on someone else's car like the old days.

A $25 cup of coffee. This parking meter stuff is short sighted and drives customers away. No one in the suburbs has to pay for parking to get a cup of coffee.

Sooner or later I need to get around to putting my car in my name, I wonder if that ticket that I haven't had the money to pay is going to cause a problem there.  Haven't received anything on it yet.

[Hoss]

Sooner or later I need to get around to putting my car in my name, I wonder if that ticket that I haven't had the money to pay is going to cause a problem there.  Haven't received anything on it yet.

Can you say 'bench warrant'?  How delinquent is it?

[patric]

There should be a way to contest it without paying it.

Seems to be lacking Due Process.
A job for R.I.C.O.?