Wednesday, July 2, 2014

parking.. the newest cause of social unrest. We're fed up with parking tickets!

In LA, activists are now seeking to cap non-public safety related parking fines at $23.

 Activists in Keene, New Hampshire, are fighting for more than just a decreased financial penalty; they want parking fines eliminated altogether. Although there is free parking in Keene after 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and all day on Sunday, libertarian activists involved in the Free Keene campaign are not satisfied. To demonstrate their discontent, they are feeding expired meters before tickets can be issued, and have allegedly prevented the city from issuing more than 4,000 parking tickets since 2009.

In other areas, like Detroit, the city actually spends more money issuing parking fines than it does from collecting them. And almost half of the Motor City’s 3,400 parking meters don't work on any given day, further complicating parking governance.

http://theweek.com/article/index/263406/do-americans-have-the-right-to-free-parking  via http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/02/free-parking-right-read-this/

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