Fighting Parking Tickets Today In Toronto

We all at some point in our lives have walked out to your own, a friends or family member’s car and have seen that bright yellow ticket flapping from the windshield. The pain of a parking ticket is not so much the monetary value but if you feel you need to fight it then you know that entails frustration and aggravation.

Most of the time, we will pay our parking tickets just so we won’t have to deal with ordeal of fighting them. This is what the city wants. The city wants us to pay our parking tickets and not fight them but sometimes the principal is to strong that there’s no choice in the matter.

So what happens when you want to fight a parking ticket?

You have 15 days to go to one of the four court offices and wait in a long line in order to request a trial. However prior to that, you’ve had to pay for parking, you’ve had to schedule time off work, use your lunch hour, hire a babysitter or worse take your baby with you in order to schedule a trial. This is so nerve wrecking that most people would ignore the ticket and just pay for it when they need to renew their sticker.

Toronto issues about 600 hundred thousand tickets for parking meter violations each year and about 40 thousand are not valid violations.

There is a new option in place and that is to fight your parking ticket electronically, via email or fax. This is only available to parking meter infractions. In many instances the police officer didn't see the ticket, read the time wrong, the pay and display meter printed the ticket incorrectly, the customer put it in their pocket or purse in a rush but will have proof that they've paid. In cases where the meter is broken and you don’t have a camera or phone handy, this new system will not work, you must still visit one of the four offices.
If you've sent proof and it wasn't enough, you do have the option to fight the ticket at a trial but that also you’ll have to do in person.

You can find out more about this new program on the City of Toronto parking ticket disputes website and for more valuable information and tips, visit www.prudentvaluecars.com