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I can. And my options were: Fight it and risk losing anyway and wasting a day defending myself. In LA and OC you also have to prepay the ticket and then they
by swang 11y ago
I can. And my options were:
Fight it and risk losing anyway and wasting a day defending myself. In LA and OC you also have to prepay the ticket and then they refund if you "win". Oh btw they also charge fees to defend yourself.
Just eat the cost of a 45 ticket.
I was just starting my first job but this was before this new boom so I didn't get paid a whole bunch. But I can see why tickets are considered a tax on the poor. If you get hit with one and you don't make enough $$$. You are fucked.
Even though I could afford to just pay the 45 ticket it ate away at me that I didn't fight it. Why am I being punished when I am pretty certain the meter maid didn't even know the law?
- majormajor 11y agoThankfully the pay-to-play has been changed going forward, at least: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-traffic-fines-20150608-story.html http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-traffic-fines-... I can see the "tax on the poor" argument on one hand, but on the other hand permit parking areas are soooo much nicer to live in than playing a parking lottery every night, if you don't have on-site parking. And that wouldn't work without enforcement. I'm not in favor of free parking for all, there just isn't enough public road space out here.
- swang 11y agoI'm glad they're ending pay-to-play, and that article shows why it's terrible. I am not really sure permit parking violations and tax on the poor are one or the other. Most people who are poor are not worried about tickets caused by permit parking violations more being randomly stopped for fixit tickets and the like. Again pay-to-play being taken out is a great first step. And there's just no real balanced way to handle this and thus the lawmakers balance the odds in their favor rather than the people they serve.