Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

The city added another 1,000 traffic enforcement officers last year, a workforce that has grown over 40% in the last five years, where ticket agents are reportedly racing to dish out tickets in an attempt to earn big bonuses in commission. Yet somehow they still ended up bringing in less revenue in the fiscal year that just ended than in the previous one. The Post reports that revenue from parking tickets dropped almost $30 million this past year (to a measly $595M). A spokesman for the mayor believes it's because more people are beating tickets online. But driver advocates such as Glenn Bolofsky, founder of ticket-beating site parkingticket.com, told the Post, "They just don't have the money. If revenue is down, it's only because individuals and businesses can't afford to pay." Maybe the city could bring in some more dough if they actually took a stand against the rampant traffic violations going on unchecked at major intersections. And no matter how many tickets agents write, we're pretty sure that they're not getting any money from this guy.

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By Billy Parker in News on August 30, 2009 6:20 PM

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KiljoyWasHere

Because?

GOP

Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?

carbonbased

"Parking Tickets Bringing in Less $$ Cause People Won't Pay?"

Because

'cause

Cause: People Won't Pay?

Cause? People Won't Pay.

Any of those would work.

Go apply at the Post.

Mr Mel

It's the best fundraiser the city has.

WestVillageVintage

Bloomberg counts tickets as part of city revenue. The usual catagory for tickets is incidental income.

MrManhattan

Clearly, we need more tow trucks. Pay the fine, or we sell the car and ship it to the third world, where it belongs.

lagomorph

Nah, strip them down to the frames, weld them together, and you've got a great reef starter.

Snoopy

Oh so they have a bonus system for these scum bums. How many of them are in the country legally?

buttface

A few days ago I witnessed a traffic cop issuing parking tickets from his driver seat. How, might you ask?

By only ticketing cars on the left side of the street, and sticking the tickets into the passenger side door handles.

Now that's synergy.

rcltrh

Not synergy, it's called LAZINESS and being on a unionized job where you can sit on your ass and do nothing worthwhile and still get paid. Traffic cops are the scum of the city, and I no-longer even have a car but I still hate them.