Comments on: New Possibility in City: Punishment for Parking

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:05:06 +0000

Just do what a lot of people who aren’t working down there do, just don’t go downtown and if you do, get enough change that they can’t shake you down. At least that way, you don’t end up with a ticket. Spend the money at the garage and pay it up and if you have to use the meters, be ready to start playing the slot machine. In Louisville Metro, its more about revenue enhancement than actually anything else.

By: Don't ticket me bro

Don't ticket me bro — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:11:59 +0000

I have always been amused that the ratio of meter cop sightings to actual cop sightings downtown is about 10 to 1. Economic development includes providing easy and welcoming access to your downtown.

By: WTF

WTF — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:30:19 +0000

I live in an apartment near Iroquois. My tags on my car were 2 weeks expired. I had the tags, just hadn’t put them on yet. I had no idea that 2 weeks would honestly make that big of a deal.PARC for some reason came through our complex that day and ticketed my car for expired tags! I was so mad. I tried to call and talk to them, but they weren’t hearing it. My brother has gone a year without getting new tags and nothing happened to him?!?

By: David Harpe

David Harpe — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:07:09 +0000

The certified letter comes after you’re already in fine trouble. If you never saw the notice on your car, you never knew you had a fine to begin with.

So you should be able to argue out of the late fee unless they can prove you received the notice on your windshield.

By: Germantown Rez

Germantown Rez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:39:09 +0000

I wonder why they can’t link unpaid tickets to car registration renewal and/or driver’s license renewal. Pay up before you can renew. Guess the boot is the next best alternative for turning scofflaws into model citizens.

By: john

john — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:30:38 +0000

Per the C-J on Wednesday, “[F]or nearly two years [city officials] have been sending a certified letter notifying violators that they have a fine due.” I’m curious why this wasn’t mentioned in this post.

In response to the excuse that you don’t have a quarter, that really isn’t the city’s fault. When you go downtown, you know that you will have to pay for parking and it is your responsibility to have the proper change to pay to park at a meter. Alternatively, you can park in a pay lot or garage.

Or if you are completely averse to paying for a spot, there is plenty of free bike parking available.

By: Larry West

Larry West — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:50:52 +0000

And God forbid that the reason why you have two parking tickets is because the meter maid was dyslexic on the license plate number while writing the citation. This happened to my daughter, who has received two parking tickets on a license plate she no longer has (she now lives in California).
I can see giving the boot for five unpaid tickets, but because the system is NOT foolproof, and it has happened that the system has messed up twice on the same license number, booting on just two tickets is way too few.
If there are going to keep the two-strike rule, then there should at least be a warning on the second ticket “pay this or else you will be booted.”

By: dontknow

dontknow — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:43:00 +0000

well, duh, Bill. I did and still do. But the meters dont get fixed. Check out the first meter on Broadway in front of Skull Alley, or the meters across from the front entrance to he Judicial Center.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:39:43 +0000

“You can be parked legally with time on the meter and still get the boot,” he said. “I don’t think that’s right.” — Its not right to not pay your tickets!

BTW I know people in the meter division they repair meters everyday. If you find a broken meter report it.

By: David Harpe

David Harpe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:39:03 +0000

How can they even be sure you received the ticket? After all, it’s stuffed under your windshield wiper – where anyone could remove it.