Parking Tickets

A list of 15 cities with the highest per-capita parking enforcement revenue.

July 23, 2024 - Quartz

The city’s efforts to reduce driving and parking downtown by raising parking fees and ticket fines seem to have little effect on driving habits.

May 10, 2022 - Axios

The two largest cities are headed in two different directions when it comes to parking enforcement for street sweeping during the coronavirus pandemic—for now at least.

March 18, 2020 - Los Angeles Times

An investigation into Philadelphia's street cleaning program reveals a parking ticket program that doesn't benefit the city as much as it benefits the Philadelphia Parking Authority.

January 17, 2019 - WHYY

You can write all the tickets in the world but you can't stop drivers from parking in bike lanes.

September 27, 2016 - WNYC

An intrepid student has created a simple chatbot program that helps people get out of parking tickets.

July 4, 2016 - Ars Technica

You might not believe it, but the city of San Francisco is offering refunds after realizing it overcharged on parking tickets.

February 26, 2016 - KQED News

The singular urban dance, or traffic jam, of "alternate-side-of-the-street parking" could get a reprieve with a new bill before the New York City Council.

July 2, 2014 - New York Times

Fools rush in, they say—with a little push from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, & Transportation Department.

February 14, 2014 - Boston Globe

In downtown Chicago, the parking lots add an extra $2 "congestion" tax for parking the whole day. Instead, many park illegally at Metra Station receiving parking tickets just to avoid the congestion pricing.

November 4, 2011 - Chicago Tribune

Officials are at a loss to explain why parking tickets issued in New York's East Village have decreased by almost half between 2009 and 2010.

September 11, 2011 - DNAInfo