We’ve written before about the “gotcha” nature of traffic ticketing in this City. Tickets are not issued to police parking but to raise taxes. So long-standing and entrenched is the gotcha state of mind at City Hall that many people there may not even realize what they are doing. The City has been in a desperate state for money for years. Bureaucrats and their subordinates condone any pretext for issuing a ticket no matter how much of an abuse it represents to the spirit of the law. Take the case of this car parked on Roxborough Avenue West whose driver accidentally put one wheel up on the edge of the sidewalk while parking. The offence, as any good traffic enforcement officer knows, is “parking on the boulevard”. $55 please. Stunning. Motorists may rightly resent this type of gotcha money grab.
