Today I am mailing out $94 of Pittsbugh parking tickets. They seem to hit me all once, different neighborhoods, different days of the week I have to park on different sides of the street for a street cleaner that does everything but clean.
They aren’t so bad in Wilkinsburgh where we live, since the ticket itself is the envelope you send your money in. It’s very easy, just take it off your wind shield, fill it with loot, attach a stamp and your done.
In Pittsburgh where I work in the Hill District, it is a much different story. I swear their tickets are made of tissue paper, so skimpy you can’t do anything with it but hide it in your glove compartment to never be seen again…until you get the letter saying your late with your payment with the cost of the ticket doubled. What a scam! Even when you get the deliquency notice you still have to search for who to make the check out to, where to send it.
This is not how I want to spend my money!
you can pay them online homeslice
Comment by minsk — August 3, 2006 @ 7:25 am
wow, minsk is right! that is new since the days when i used to get one parking ticket every other day in oakland.
https://step1.caledoncard.com/tickets/pittsburgh.html
Comment by monica — August 11, 2006 @ 5:49 am
Thanks for the link, that will help.
Comment by Ryan — August 11, 2006 @ 5:52 am
I just renewed our parking permits and got the name of the top dog in the parking authority because this is my argument…. you need to pay for a “residential” permit so you dont get a ticket between 11am and 4pm Mon-Fri. Unfortunately, most people are at work during those hours and NEED parking in the evening and on weekends! how idiotic! Its the complete opposite of what we need.
These are all just scams so the city can get more money. Its easier and cheaper for them to ticket during the day than to enforce it in the evening and weekends.
Street cleaning around me is a joke as well. They wonder why people dont want to live in the city, but they make it a pain to live here. (”they” = the city)
Im going to rage against the machine soon.
Comment by Josh — January 2, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
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