  Epaminondas Member Username: Epaminondas Post Number: 3 Registered: 01-2007 |
Does anyone know if the City will run a parking ticket amnesty program soon? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 350 Registered: 10-2006 |
How much do you owe? | ||
Epaminondas Member Username: Epaminondas Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2007 |
About $750 | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 187 Registered: 11-2006 |
No wonder the city's budget isnt balanced.... Pay up. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 8069 Registered: 12-2003 |
NO, wait. Your cashola today won't do much for the city's budget, and I'd bet that at SOME time you've gotten a parking ticket or two unfairly. Just don't park ANYWHERE on the street in the city. They WILL boot you and totally screw up that and any subsequent days while you struggle to afford to pay them the FULL amount with the boot fees and etcetera attached. These amnesty periods seem to arrive annually...when WAS the last one? I am amazed that I haven't had to partake in any in two years or so. Last TWO tickets I got I paid immediately to save that big discount they give you IN THE FINE PRINT ON THE BACK OF THE TICKET. Better than that damn Sword of Damocoles hanging over my head. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 461 Registered: 01-2006 |
What is the point at which you will get booted? Is it a concrete number? | ||
Valkyrias Member Username: Valkyrias Post Number: 420 Registered: 02-2005 |
if i remember correctly, the last parking ticket amnesty took place last spring, and i think i remember someone saying it happens every spring, but don't quote me on that. | ||
Detroitstar Member Username: Detroitstar Post Number: 462 Registered: 01-2006 |
What is this amnesty that you speak of? This sounds like something that I could use. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 8072 Registered: 12-2003 |
Used to be six tickets, but they may have reduced it when they invested in that van with the camera/computer scanning system. They might have TWO of 'em...is't been a while since that news report...you will see then cruising around downtown occasionally. I haven't seen many boots lately, but two summers ago it was epidemic! I really don't remember what the amnesty program saved you...might be the late penalties...it shaved off half of my debt, I thought, when I did it three years ago. | ||
Granmontrules Member Username: Granmontrules Post Number: 7 Registered: 01-2007 |
I say pay up! I have paid mine and not always thought they were all fair. | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 188 Registered: 11-2006 |
If you have racked up $750 in fines, I think its a little late for you to be wondering what to do. Pay the damn fines, and learn the parking rules. If you wanted to fight them, you shouldnt have waited till you had dozens of them | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 946 Registered: 11-2003 |
Probably drives an import, too. "Hey, whats going on with all the empty buildings?" | ||
Epaminondas Member Username: Epaminondas Post Number: 5 Registered: 01-2007 |
Spirit, are you the spokesman for the meter maid association? I want to pay up, but why wouldn't I try to do so during an amnesty period so my fines are cut in half? | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 189 Registered: 11-2006 |
Well, you could have and should have paid them on time and recieved the discounted ticket rate  | ||
Ro_resident Member Username: Ro_resident Post Number: 200 Registered: 11-2003 |
It looks like the parking amnesty program has an irregular schedule. 2004 http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/cc sd/releases/04%20Releases/Park ing%20Amnesty%20Program.htm 2006 http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/cc sd/releases/06releases/Extende d_Parking_AmnestyII.htm | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1275 Registered: 12-2004 |
Why don't you just pay your fines or not park illegally? | ||
Bratt Member Username: Bratt Post Number: 468 Registered: 01-2004 |
Oh you people are so funny. Instead of pounding on E and his parking ticket problem, why don't you all take up a collection. I mean, since you are all so perfect and shit.... | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 8085 Registered: 12-2003 |
First, the premise of parking meters ASSUMES an innate ability to recognize the passage of time. SINCE there is no grace on THIS use of the sweep-second hand whip...I conclude that it is perfectly reasonable to fight the stacked fines they place on late payment of tickets that shouldn't exist in the first place. Great response, Bratt! Helluva left jab you've got there. What is the use of parking meters? Why are they here? | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1277 Registered: 12-2004 |
Parking meters help control street congestion. You can read about their rise in "Downtown: Its Rise and Fall," by Robert M. Fogelson. As for your inability to recognize the passage of time, might I suggest you get a journal or calendar? | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 8087 Registered: 12-2003 |
1953, Please provide links and pictures of the current street congestion within the city of Detroit. You can direct me to books on that, too. Street Congestion Avoidance in Modern-Day Detroit. Sounds like a best-seller. quote: I get that all the time, 1953, I have no concept of the divisions of time...only the flow. Same with money. You can take your western solar calendar and stick it somewhere dark, same with your watch with the sweep second hand whip! I really tried to achieve some ability through the shackles you mere humans so willingly allow to bind you to this foreign concept. It is slavery, though, but since you've been IN IT for so long, y'all do not know any different. Stay away from my journal, though. CHEERS! |
