Results tagged “parkingticket”

As you all know by now, the PPA has raised their ticketing rates. As you also probably know by now, the PPA cares not. Philebrity.com caught a ticket stuck in a snow covered car today. We stumbled upon our own parking ticket trauma last weekend.

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week.

Dear Philadelphia,

Remember back in 1990 when you parked your bitchin' Camaro on South Street and came back to see a zillion parking tickets on the windshield of your sweet ride? Yeah, we don't remember that, either...but it sure did happen and you -- being the broke college student at the time -- never paid those tickets.

If you, like many Philadelphians, ignore your parking tickets and then spend your time surreptitiously moving your car to avoid getting booted, get ready -- Harrisburg lawmakers want to come down on you scofflaws like the Hammer of Thor. "Lawmakers in the state House are considering an amendment that would keep people with six or more unpaid parking tickets in Philly from being able to renew their car registrations." Look for a vote on this bill before the Summer recess. The good news: it could bring in much needed revenue to city coffers (hey, those sidewalks don't clean themselves, you know). The bad news: it will add to the already huge fleet of illegal drivers here in the City of Brotherly Love. And did we mention that it won't apply to any other city in Pennsylvania? That's right -- if you're a parking ticket scofflaw in Pittsburgh or Allentown or even Harrisburg, no one seems to care about collecting the debt owed in those cities. It hardly seems fair. The bill was introduced by Philadelphia's own PA House Republican, John J. Taylor. A little payback for being so blue, perhaps?