Will you please give a description, if possible, of the employee, as well as the approximate location of the meter? The meter # would be great, but it's not necessary. Thanks!

The new parking meters in New Haven are able to provide us with all applicable data regarding payment at any given time so it is very easy for us to determine whether this issue is occurring. These meters, which constitute over half of all meters in New Haven, provide us with all pertinent information regarding coin and credit card transactions. The older meters clearly display expired in the photographs our officers take of the meter at the time of issuance. Also, with the newest payment method the City has offered, pay by cell phone technology of Park Mobile, we can also check to see if and when all meters in New Haven are paid in this manner.

Can you please provide the specific ticket number so we can investigate whether there was time on the meter at the time of issuance? Be advised there are several violations that can be issued even if time is on the meter. With specific ticket numbers we are able to fully investigate any erroneous ticket issuance suggested by this post. All tickets have the parking enforcement officers badge number listed on the ticket that identify who issued that violation. Furthermore, if anyone believes they have been issued a parking citation in error each ticket clearly outlines the proper channels to appeal your violation on the back of the ticket. This must be done within the first 15 days of issuance, and many people are able to enter their contestment in a matter of minutes from their personal computers and even cell phones.

I watched a meter person place a ticket on my car while there was still time on the meter. As I ran up, I pointed this out to him. He shrugged and told me to contest it. I took a photo of the ticket next to the meter, with the times on both clearly showing. The ticket time was two minutes ahead of the meter time. I sent it to to MARYLAND, which is what the city told me to do - it's been at least 6 months - haven't heard a thing.

Yeah they issued me a ticket when it wasn't even my car they were ticketing. It was the same model color and year, but not mine. Another Toyota Corolla. You can tell from the photo that is taking when a ticket is issued and the fact I was halfway across the country attending to a dying relative. I am still fighting the PRIVATE CORPORATION the city uses for parking enforcement. No one at city hall was willing to help. They just pushed me off to this PRIVATE CORPORATION to fight them so they didn't have to deal with it. Meanwhile now I have a scumbag debt collector contacting me about the ticket. And it wasn't even my car. This city needs an enema.

As a side note I never even knew I had an outstanding ticket and missed the appeals deadline. The person that wrote the ticket placed it on the unknown cars windshield but issued it to mine. I didn't find out until I started to get angry letters demanding money from the henchman at the parking dept.

To T & P - when we start catching your people on video you will take a much different tune. Your appeal process is a joke and inadequate, your resolution process is done in secrecy and there is no way to affirm that any action was actually taken. As you can see from the MULTIPLE POSTS above- not the only one that sees this happen.

Traffic and Parking in New Haven is corrupt! I have recieved the same answer on contested bogus tickets: "we have conducted our investigation and found that your vehicle was in violation...blah blah. I don't believe that they even read or consider the complaint. I think the people need to organize a protest.

Just like every department at city hall of new haven , it's way to top heavy , all chiefs no Indians..
Patronage dumps.They lay down to obtain more positions.. When they hear the proposals from yale grads and their supporters about a scheme to create more revenue , revenue that will pay for new positions ,"and over time the city will be turning a profit" Here is one way to hustle up some much needed cash , another was pretty Christmas-esque flashing bulb meters ,ooooo the general pubic was mesmerized

Anyone have any ideas how we can start to change this process-??

My idea is to petition the Board of Alderman to have an independent citizen review board appointed to oversee the process of the issuance of tickets and the appeal process by monitoring these activities at random-(ie follow random appeals for contesting legitimately broken meters) review maintenance records & match to contested tickets, send out random "spies" to shadow meter maids sporadically and watch what they do. if nothing shows up in 6 months then I guess we were all mistaken.

I am all for joining others to change this problem. I cannot afford anymore tickets. An example of a denied appeal is when I was ticketed in from of my own residence for being parked over the time limit. My zone sticker had just been removed because my windshield was replaced. Fine, so they gave me a ticket because I had no sticker. But when I contested it, I told them I have lived there for seven years and have had that same car in the neighborhood for two. They "investigated" and denied my appeal. It seems very unfair. And to get a new sticker I have to go to City Hall between 9-5 which is almost impossible with my job. I have always loved New Haven but I am seriously considering leaving.

You know what I think is funny? The transportation department responded to this complaint and provided detailed information about the way in which they can resolve the problem, yet there has been no effort to do so by the person who posted this issue. And everyone else is ignoring that fact too so they can have a chance to rant and rave. Certainly there are legitimate gripes out there that point to people's disillusion with city government but I gotta say that this particular issue points to embarrassing aspects of the city's residents.

Under Current, the poster did provide the meter number as asked. I'm not sure what you think is embarrasing about people tired of a seemingly unjust process. I don't think it is just the one meter issue people are complaining about. It is the overall sense of being at the mercy of a city department and the private corporation they use to process tickets and appeals. I have been through it many times as have a lot of other citizens I know. New Haven is known to be terrible in this regard. I do think something needs to be done about it. I have friends in the subsurbs who will not come in to New Haven because of these issues. I have also talked to many city residents who complain of spending hundreds of dollars on tickets per year, not all valid violations. Why does it uspet you that we are complaining?

In September of 2010 I received a parking ticket for being parked in front of my house, because the sticker in my back window had expired. I had already applied for a new one, weeks before. When I appealed the ticket, I was told to send it to City Hall with a note saying that I had applied for the parking permit but that it had not yet arrived, so I did just that. In the meantime, my new parking sticker arrived and I put in my window. However, I was told by City Hall that my appeal was denied, despite having done what they asked, despite being a resident of zone 3 with utility bills and an address to prove it, despite having been given a parking sticker the year before and that same year. I received a letter saying that I had to pay the bill or my parking privileges would be revoked. Since I had not paid it while waiting for the appeal, they tacked on a late fee as well. I paid it with the intent of appealing again, which I did, and which was denied again. So, for having followed the rules, for having done as instructed to appeal, for being a legal resident of my zone, my appeal was denied, and I lost money to thankfully soon-to-be-former mayor and his incompetent office. When I made a complaint about it, I started to hear from other people that the same thing had happened to them. So yes, we should complain, and we should complain loudly, not just here in cyberspace but at City Hall as well. If the city needs to find ways of making money, why not ticket the people who park in very clearly marked no parking zones (at the corner of Orange and Pearl, for example, where people park in bus stops just to go to Cafe Romeo to get a cup of coffee), or go after those who don't stop when people are in the middle of a clearly marked cross walk? We should start taking pictures and videos of the meter maids and of true violators, and we should send them to the city and to the local news.

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Why do you assume that we are all doing illegal things and being cry babies about facing consequences? Have you even read people's examples? Is it illegal to park I. Front of your house because you've temporarily lost your zone pass? So you are basically just screwed? I have other experiences I haven't shared, like the time they put no parking notices up after 8:00 pm and my car was ticketed by the time I went out to leave for work... And of course they denied my appeal with no explanation other than the usual "we conducted our investigation..." No they did not. If they did, they would have found that the city did something illegal by not giving 24 hour notice. I just really don't understand why people who have not had this issue are arguing with those of us who have. Good for you if you haven't experienced it. But why are you doubting and criticizing a bunch of folks who have? And making assumptions that we must be wrong, not the city policies. I find it strange.

Nothing is strange after you have lived here for 5 years. The USA could only be as strange in the heart of Appalachia.

Buy a bicycle I need to meet you, I have never experienced someone so blind to the reality in front of them and just because we can't afford anymore tickets you reason that with a car- If I can't afford anymore taxes should I get rid of my home and live in a tent- Are you a friend of DeStefano's ??

You are not reading about the issue your only reading what you want to read and your defense is "it just doesn't happen" Yes there are A LOT of people who blame others, but when your right your right and when your wrong u should pay- I forgot to move my car on street sweeping day- my bad- I paid the $100 ticket- I didn't cry, but when I did nothing wrong I don't expect to be punished. The ISSUE is the resolution process- the one we have only denies your appeal and you pay anyways- NO DUE PROCESS IS THE ISSUE. PLEASE BE MORE PERCEPTIVE !!

The parking meter number provided is not accurate. Therefore, this issue is being closed.