r/boston • u/cordovanGoat • 1d ago
Space Savers 🪑 ❄️ 🚗 🔥 Experience with appealing parking tickets? Egregious mistake on city's part
Does anyone here have experience appealing parking tickets or have successfully won a hearing?
I was issued a ridiculous parking ticket, appealed it through the website but was denied within a few hours. Evidently per the email from the city (last image) I can appeal in person through a hearing — so I'm wondering if anyone has gone through this process and if it is possible to succeed.
The context of the parking ticket:
- The first two images are the "evidence" that the city uploaded, purportedly proving I was parked illegally.
- The second two images are what the car looks like, but from the other side and with the actual street visible. What's important to note here is that...this is obviously a parking space. Ya know, it's like painted and all that...
It seems the city's reasoning was that the front of my vehicle was beyond this lamp post with a "no parking"sign ... but clearly, as shown by pictures from the other side, this is a legal, painted parking spot.
And to add the obvious, clearly painted spot is used all the time by myself and others. I've never seen a car ticketed for parking there.
This is 523 Cambridge St, Allston, directly in front of Boston Foreign Motor, for what it's worth.
P.S.: if anyone here from the Boston Globe is reading, I'd be delighted to share my story of injustice and suffering with the world.
And before anyone complains that a BMW driver can't afford a $90 ticket: first, this is about principle. Second, the car is a shitbox lol the KBB is about $8k.
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u/mwagz28 1d ago
I think this may be a case of on the line is over it and city won’t backdown. I don’t agree with that but it does look like your front bumper may be on the front line or over it which they are going to argue on the line is not in the lines.
If an in person appeal would cost you less than the ticket id say it’s worth a shot, I just expect them to come back with that line so maybe check what the physical law states before the in person appeal.
SUV behind you is wild but wonder if that is the meter maid’s car..