Oneagain, I completely agree with you and am posting to say so because the loudest voices here (other than the OP) seem to have been those that say the city should grab everything from us it can and it's solely our problem if we don't (or can't) stay on top of everything.
To support what you say, I have a driveway and last summer from May through August blissfully (=ignorantly) drove around with an expired sticker - for some reason I thought I'd already had it done, until I went in for an oil change and the garage pointed it out to me (and inspected me). I have no excuse except that years go by so fast that it felt like just yesterday I'd had it inspected, and like anything you look at every day that sticker became invisible to me - so much for "it's there to remind you every day." I could do this because I'm rich - well, not actually rich, but well-off enough to own a driveway in this city. Also a 50ish white female, so cops are generally not going to profile me as anything but boring.
I've been here - not forever, but since 2006 - long enough to see the city put these parking and ticketing changes in place, and I've been reading the local papers online for that time, and the city has never tried to hide the fact that the changes were, first and foremost, a source of revenue - a "gotcha" source of revenue - not primarily in the interest of helping anyone, and certainly not in response to the desires of the population that - in theory - the government represents.
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RE: Late to this.
Date: 2014-09-16 03:29 pm (UTC)To support what you say, I have a driveway and last summer from May through August blissfully (=ignorantly) drove around with an expired sticker - for some reason I thought I'd already had it done, until I went in for an oil change and the garage pointed it out to me (and inspected me). I have no excuse except that years go by so fast that it felt like just yesterday I'd had it inspected, and like anything you look at every day that sticker became invisible to me - so much for "it's there to remind you every day." I could do this because I'm rich - well, not actually rich, but well-off enough to own a driveway in this city. Also a 50ish white female, so cops are generally not going to profile me as anything but boring.
I've been here - not forever, but since 2006 - long enough to see the city put these parking and ticketing changes in place, and I've been reading the local papers online for that time, and the city has never tried to hide the fact that the changes were, first and foremost, a source of revenue - a "gotcha" source of revenue - not primarily in the interest of helping anyone, and certainly not in response to the desires of the population that - in theory - the government represents.