A rash of parking tickets has left residents questioning parking meter enforcement in Ellwood City’s business district.
The uncertainty is because of the time the tickets were issued. According to the warnings posted on the meters, enforcement occurs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Recently, tickets were issued after 6 p.m.
Mayor Anthony Court said all the tickets issued after 6 p.m. are in the process of being voided.
“I believe the ticketing situation was wrong,” Mayor Court said.
Court said he will recommend to Ellwood City Borough Council during Thursday’s meeting, a change in the borough parking ordinance. Although the meters claim enforcement time ends at 6 p.m., according to a borough parking ordinance tickets can be issued for illegal parking until 9 p.m. Court said he will be suggesting an enforcement time of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“It is a change that is long overdue,” Court said. “A change should have been made long ago.”
Court added that in the future his goal is to have the meters removed from all business district parking.
I got a ticket for parking on the curb at the school where other teachers park. The teachers did not get a ticket and I was the only one. I believe if I got a ticket the teachers should too. I also don’t agree with the fact that the teachers have their own parking lot and some of them take the parking spots in the front of the school which is one of the FEW places students can park at the school. If they are given a parking lot and we are not, they should not allowed to be able to take our parking spots which we are not guaranteed when they are always guaranteed one. I don’t think it’s right that I got a ticket and the teachers that park on the sidewalk didn’t. They have their own parking lot, they need to use it. If I can park there, they should’t be allowed either.
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It is astonishing that parking tickets can be issued after the advertised cut off time. This is certainly one for volume 2 of my book “The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness & Traffic Warden Hell “