KHOU: Downtown motorists wrongly ticketed
KHOU-11's Carolyn Campbell reports on some overly zealous parking-meter enforcement downtown:
The Astros loss to the Braves Saturday was bad enough, but when longtime fan and season ticket holder, Nancy Barlow got to her car things only got worse.
That’s because she was given a ticket.
According to the citation, the parking meter had expired.
But Barlow claims she’s innocent.
She said she specifically paid for an hour of parking from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and the sign indicates there’s no charge for parking after 4.
Her ticket was issued at 4:15.
“I think it’s, in a way a city scam.. banking on the fact that people will send $25 in and forget about it,” said Barlow.
The Astros fan said there were at least 10 other cars belonging to fans parked along this street at the same meter.
She said all of them also had been ticketed.
“Ten saturday games they’re making $2500 dollars on parking tickets that are given out when you’re parking space is valid,” said Barlow.
If she has to, Barlow said she’ll fight her ticket, but she believes in this case, the city should allow her to handle the matter by phone.
“.... and I don’t think people stand up and I don’t think they go to court for something like this because of the hassle,” Barlow said.
So, instead of being taken to the ball game, Barlow believes she’s been taken by the city’s parking division.
The Assistant Director of Parking Managment for the city said the parking ticket was a mistake.
Wasn't Mayor White's grand new parking authority supposed to solve problems with downtown parking?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/14/06 10:12 PM | Print | Comments (3)
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