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Finally! A Better Way to Fight Parking Tickets
A few months ago I got the most bogus parking ticket ever - for parking incorrectly in a parking lot while I was buying some Japanese essentials at SANKO at Queen and Claremont. The cop was just wedging the ticket underneath my wipers when I came out of the store and asked him what was going on.
Apparently I was too close to the sidewalk, but whoever heard of getting a parking ticket in a PARKING LOT? He realized he just quadrupled my grocery bill but said there was nothing he could do about it since he issued the ticket - but he advised me to fight it down at Metro Hall and that they'd cancel it if I told them I was inside buying groceries.
I had something like 15 days to log my intention not to pay it and sure enough I didn't find the time to get down there to register my case. So there went 50 bucks.
I'm not alone in my frustrations.
But now, thanks to a new site called parkingtickets.to this will never happen to me again. The site allows anyone to fight their parking tickets online for the small fee of $5 - a steal considering the time and effort (not to mention possible TTC fare or parking) involved up until now to request a court date in person.
The site just launched and is short on details about how this all works but basically you enter your infraction number, license plate and pay the $5 plus tax ($5.65) and the site will request a court date on your behalf.
I only wish they could also guarantee the charges be dropped.
UPDATE: I just spoke with owner Greg Kasparian (who also owns EcoCut). He explained to me that how this works is once or twice a week he will be taking all the infraction number/license plate combos down to Metro Hall and file them. In so doing, he also submits all the related address info so the city is able to follow up with any of the site's customers directly with a mailed letter with a confirmed court date. Kasparian says this is all legal and he simply acts as an "agent" as permitted by the city.


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Interesting concept if it's not though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQQh_r_4UU&eurl=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/arthur-dent-meets-doi.php&feature=player_embedded
where they make it so difficult that you just fold in the end, that someone will do that line-standing is worth a lot more than five and a half bucks!
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Arthur Dent: On display? I had to go down to the cellar.
O: that's the display department.
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O: the lights were probably out.
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O: but you did see the notice, didn't you?
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Uh... those rules about parking too close to a hydrant are in place for a reason, and they have nothing to do with how empty the street is.
If the street was so empty, you should've been able to find somewhere legal to park.
I just put the site live today, I had no idea my email to blogto would get me noticed so quickly.
The site is functional, the system works and I am just putting the finishing touches on the content links. I have requested quite a few court dates for a few friends who get parking tickets somewhat regularly as they drive downtown a lot. This website is an extension of that.
Just for the record, the $5.65 does not pay for representation in the event you do get notice of a court date. It simply pays to have us REQUEST a court date (option three) on your behalf.
As soon as he's swamped, it's over. He'll go bye bye.
But 5 bucks is cheap for him to go through the hassle for you.
And speaking of fire hydrants, the city should mark 3 m on either side with a yellow paint mark on the sidewalk. Then there's no debate about where the 3 m is.
1) First appearance at Metro Hall to book a court to dispute the ticket.
2) Second appearance in court to actually dispute the ticket.
So this service will save you the trip to Metro Hall at a cost of $5.65, you still have to take half a day off. Not sure why the site owner is charging tax, is he reporting this as revenue to the government?
http://boldt.us/humor/no_parking_fire_hydrant_bmw_windows.jpg.html
Re: Bobby
It's a sale of a non-essential service, of course tax is charged! Yey for GST!
They couldn't have had a fact-checker at a desk somewhere sort that out in 5 minutes instead?
The price has gone up, but still the $10 is more than worth not going into that stupid office and burning MORE than your lunch hour. It looks like they have started filing Traffic tickets too, which is AWESOME.
Contestmyticket.com looks totally bogus... a printed letter for $10? I don't get how that would work... considering you MUST request a trial in person.
Anyway... when I get a ticket if I do anything but pay it, I'll use Parkingtickets.to
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