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Two Sundays ago, visiting in-laws parked on Park St in front of Pierson College, slightly west of Edgemont. No "No Parking" was visible. Nevertheless - presto! - a $30- ticket issued. Upon inspection I took a video of a "No Parking" sign clearly blocked by foliage (see attached still photo).
Dirty, revenue raising pool - two cars with $30 tix were right next to the invisible sign.
"Welcome to New Haven" the place that's glad to mess with people who just drove 1,700 miles from Texas to visit after a 28 year hiatus!
We just paid the rapacious ticket - past the all too swift time to appeal - 15 days - a cynical manipulation of the consumer in and of itself. In marketing, that's called "counting on slippage" to hit a target number. You guys should be bigger than that. In your personal lives you're really nice people; why allow this unnecessary nonsense to alienate townsfolk?
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Jeff Lee (Registered User)
Закрыта Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Verified Official)
From the City of New Haven Code of General Ordinances;
"Sec. 29-35. - Parking prohibited in certain places.
No operator shall stop, stand, or leave any horse or other animal or vehicle, in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or traffic sign or signal:
(a) Within an intersection, or
(b) Within twenty-five (25) feet of an intersection, or a marked crosswalk, or
(c) On a crosswalk, or
(d) In front of and so as to obstruct a driveway, or
(e) On any street so as to obstruct traffic, or
(f) Within ten (10) feet of any fire hydrant, or
(g) On the side of any street within twenty-five (25) feet of any stop sign, or
(h) On any street that is posted to prohibit parking pursuant to traffic authority regulations, or
(i) On any street posted no parking for street maintenance pursuant to regulation or permit by the director of public works, or
(j) On any sidewalk, or
(k) In any handicapped parking space without a permit to use such space, or
(l) In any space for more than seventy-two (72) consecutive hours, provided that nothing in this subsection (l) shall be so construed as to apply to those spaces posted as residential parking spaces in a residential parking zone created pursuant to section 29-55 of this Code of General Ordinances.
(Traffic Reg. of 7-7-52, § 18; Ord. of 3-7-88, § 6)
Cross reference— Damaging or blocking access to hydrants prohibited, § 13-706."
Deep Blue (Registered User)