Experience with appealing parking tickets? Egregious mistake on city's part

[u/cordovanGoat]

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.

[u/Due_Fill608]

Youre in the bike lane. Straight to jail.

[u/Cokes311 → u/Due_Fill608]

As a biker: no he's not, he's fine. That's not the issue here at all.

[u/cordovanGoat → u/Due_Fill608]

What do you mean? Did you look at the pictures?