Parking Tickets
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Cherry blossoms slow to appear, but parking tickets bloom
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Many tourists were let down by this year's not-yet-blooming cherry blossoms. And instead of seeing pink on the trees, many discovered pink on their windshields - in the form of parking tickets.
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D.C. made $92 million in 2012 from parking tickets
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We've all had the heart-sinking feeling upon seeing a fluttering parking ticket stuck to your windshield. For D.C., though, they see nothing but dollar signs, according to AAA - to the tune of $92 million in revenue last year.
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7 On Your Side: Residents in NW D.C. surprised by stacks of parking tickets
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Some D.C. residents are up in arms about parking tickets that have been piling up on their cars, so they called 7 On Your Side.
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Parking 'ticket' issued by parking garage on public street stirs controversy
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A parking "ticket" issued by Colonial Parking garage at Rhode Island Row is stirring up controversy because it was issued on a car parked on a public street.
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D.C. writing tickets to the wrong people
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WTOP overnight anchor Dean Lane is one of thousands who lives out of state, parks a car in the District at night and gets ticketed for not having D.C. tags to the tune of $100 per citation.
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D.C. unpaid parking tickets go to debt collectors
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More than 230,000 drivers have been turned over to the District’s debt collector because of unpaid parking tickets.
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Silver Spring man gets three parking tickets, two tows in D.C.
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Imagine getting three parking tickets and having your car towed twice...all in the same night. That's what happened to a Maryland couple as they visited the White House last Christmas.
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Street sweeping season begins with a block full of bogus $100 tickets
D.C.'s street sweeping season officially resumed on March 1, with parking enforcement set to start March 12. But one D.C. street already received an unfortunate surprise: $100 parking tickets given in error in Columbia Heights.
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Danny White's vanity license plate 'NO TAGS' gets $20,000 in tickets
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D.C. native Danny White wanted to be funny and got a personalized license plate reading NO-TAGS. Turns out, the joke is on him. He's been rewarded more than $20,000 in traffic tickets.
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Washington, D.C. issues more than 350 parking tickets an hour
If you drive in the District, AAA Mid-Atlantic has some numbers that will crush your holiday spirits. The city's Department of Public Works gave out more than 1.6 million parking tickets last year and received likely more than $80 million as a result. Is that truly fair?
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D.C. parking tickets being issued at quick rate
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AAA says that parking officials throughout the District have written more than 1.6 million tickets, costing drivers anywhere between $25 and $100, in Fiscal Year 2011; a rate of nearly 5,300 citations per enforcement day.
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University of Maryland parking tickets: Steep fines, quick tickets dot campus lots
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If you take a walk around the sprawling campus of the University of Maryland in College Park for long enough, it won't be long until you see the familiar flutter of a piece of paper clinging to the windshield of a car.
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University of Maryland parking tickets: How U.Md. stacks up
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Amongst a sample of schools taken by ABC7's John Gonzalez, the numbers show that Maryland is outpacing several schools in terms of the rate that they issue parking tickets on campus.
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D.C.'s DMV raked in $80.4M last year from parking tickets
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The D.C. Dept. of Motor Vehicles is making bank off of motorists and other cities are thinking of following suit.
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