The city of Milwaukee's excessive parking ticketsWhen a person goes out at night in Milwaukee they can either pay the 5-10$ parking lot fee’s, take a cab or try to park in one of the few free lots. The previous night some friends and I went out downtown, because of work early in the morning I just drove my car and was the responsible one in the group. I parked in a free lot and when we came out to go home I had a $30 ticket for “not parking on a complete angle.”
OK…. um my car was on an angle, maybe not 45 degrees but it was on an angle, when I parked that’s how the other cars around me where, so that’s how I was also.
This issue wouldn’t even make me mad if I hadn’t just given the city $12 for a night parking pass two days before, and I have gotten 4 other night parking tickets since September 1st.
For the love of god, the city of Milwaukee needs to find a better way to get another source of income than parking tickets because the reasons to charge a person are becoming ridiculous!
Listed on the Milwaukee website are the almost 100 reasons a person can get a ticket… some of them are actually funny: Police Department
Among them are my favorite:
- Parked Wrong Direction
- Parked in Taxicab Stand
- Car Key Ignition Ordinance
- Snow Emergency Regulation 4 + Inches
Please learn from my mistakes and remember that in the city of Milwaukee they strive for excellence when it comes to parking. Just a thought, maybe they can take all the money they make on tickets and pay more patrol officers to drive around the UWM campus after dark, it seems that is a little bigger of an issue.
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