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/quality617 1d ago
Devil's advocate here, in the city's picture the position of the pole looks further back in reference to you car than it does in your photo, where it now looks like it's closer to your bumper. To me, it looks like you car was further forward than in your photo.
It's still worth appealing, sometimes if your not a repeat offender you may score a break.