I am from Upstate NY. Every other weekend I visit NYC and visit my GF. Most of the time I leave on Sundays, however occasionally I have stayed till Monday or Tuesday. When I do and am parked on the side of the street to be sweeped the following morning--i always get up and double park the car on the other side of the street, Normal Right? I have been doing this for several years now.
However, Recently my GF moved. She now lives on the middle of a block where on the corner there exists a school. I have noticed one regulation in particualar b/c of the school, that we cannot park in front of the school from 7am-4pm on school days. I have always respected this, and in fact was parked there last night. So i got up early today on my day off and moved the car. Since this time corresponded with the street sweeping times I figured I will just wait till the hour hits and double park like I always have, no signs warned otherwise. There was even a parking officer waiting to give tickets to those who disobey the street sweeping regulations, and she said nothing to me even though she saw me double park where i did.
Anyway, I run upstairs and took care of some business for a little of an hour. The I ran downstairs and figured i would simply slide my car over to the other side and wait till the time expires prohbiting parking due to sweeping.
To my suprise however, I founf a ticket for double parking with the comment school block on it. I was not the only one that got one, in fact i spoke with three others from out of the area who did the same thing. The ticket is $115, which is ridiculous considering how responsible I am with paying attention to parking signs.
However, in this case there was no sign prohibbiting double parking during street sweeping b/c i was on a school block.
What are my options other than simply giving in and paying this ticket. You would think there would be a sign right?
What does everyone think?
-Shaun
However, Recently my GF moved. She now lives on the middle of a block where on the corner there exists a school. I have noticed one regulation in particualar b/c of the school, that we cannot park in front of the school from 7am-4pm on school days. I have always respected this, and in fact was parked there last night. So i got up early today on my day off and moved the car. Since this time corresponded with the street sweeping times I figured I will just wait till the hour hits and double park like I always have, no signs warned otherwise. There was even a parking officer waiting to give tickets to those who disobey the street sweeping regulations, and she said nothing to me even though she saw me double park where i did.
Anyway, I run upstairs and took care of some business for a little of an hour. The I ran downstairs and figured i would simply slide my car over to the other side and wait till the time expires prohbiting parking due to sweeping.
To my suprise however, I founf a ticket for double parking with the comment school block on it. I was not the only one that got one, in fact i spoke with three others from out of the area who did the same thing. The ticket is $115, which is ridiculous considering how responsible I am with paying attention to parking signs.
However, in this case there was no sign prohibbiting double parking during street sweeping b/c i was on a school block.
What are my options other than simply giving in and paying this ticket. You would think there would be a sign right?
What does everyone think?
-Shaun