Do they give parking tickets in your city or town without clearly posting signs?

I live in Manhattan.

Don’t get me started…

not really, they just tow your car… and you have to pay the ticket and the towing…

Our parking meters were FINALLY taken out. We are such a small town and very little places to park without using the meters. Anyway when we did have meters, they were not post signs on the streets about Parking Tickets. But if you parked in a businesses parking area there were signs posted there. That your car could be towed at “your” expense for parking there.

I live in a small town without any parking meters, but in the summer the place gets so overcrowded with tourists that summer cops hand out parking tickets like candy. There are a lot of places where parking signs are hidden by flora or knocked over and you can still get a ticket. Similarly, at my university, there are plenty of places that don’t have parking signs whatsoever; people park there and the unfortunate ones who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time get tickets. However, you do have the right to go to the town hall and argue your case to a judge, hopefully voiding the ticket.

Often doing that is more trouble than it’s worth, but when you’re from a town when a parking ticket is $50, you have to be careful.

We get speeding tickets for unposted stretches of street, that defy common sense for why they are the rate they are. Also, “No turn on red” signs aren’t visible if you’re the first car at the intersection, and they’re posted 30 feet up in the air, out of your line of sight.

We do not have this problem in Nashville. all signs are there and clearly visible. if there is a problem, its taken care asap. the Nashville-Metro Police Department is one of the very few accredited police departments in the nation. in order to keep the accredidation, all signs must be visible and up to date, in order for them to be enforced.

In Denver, I had a problem with there not being a sign being posted. I went to the library, and I came out, two hours later, and there was a F*%(ing ticket shoved out of site in my passenger side mirror. So…... I took pictures of the surrounding area, and then fought the ticket. I will tell you that the meter guy who thought he was all big and bad was pissed, when the ticket got dismissed. And as I walked out the courtroom, I called the meter guy a whiney b*%@h and smiled and then said have a nice day. :)

I attend a medium-large sized college that has about 2000 students (~10% of the student population) commute via car every day. All available lots are employee, resident student, or extremely overpriced visitor lots; thus, we park on the street. Which is a problem. First, you’re almost guarenteed a 20–30 minute parking space search & a 15–20 minute walk to class. Second, street cleaning days eliminate half the spots. And then there’s the part that actually pertains to this question: Our parking officials have a tendency to post paper (yes, paper) “No Parking” signs on what I can only guess is a random selection of side streets. The time between the posting of these signs and the towing of the cars has been, at least once, less than a 12 hour window.

Moral of the story: Biking to class is much more economical and much less hassle.