{"id":732110,"date":"2026-04-16T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:39:14","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-city-governments-bank-on-our-lack-of-time-to-fight-parking-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732110\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: City governments bank on our lack of time to fight parking tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: Moral of this story: Governments should not rely on their own incompetence, inefficiencies and stubbornness as a revenue stream to bilk us, the taxpayers (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-13\/he-did-everything-right-his-los-angeles-parking-fine-kept-growing-anyway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe did everything right. His Los Angeles parking fine kept growing anyway,\u201d<\/a> April 13).<\/p>\n<p>What happened to Paul Cook and his parking ticket pretty much exactly happened to me with the city of Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>Contesting wrongful assessments like these is difficult or impossible when you hold a full-time job. But city governments bank on our lack of time.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than dismiss our claims, parking enforcement agencies should budget money and manpower to check the veracity of our assertions, which are usually not made-up. Instead, they waste court and administrative resources and, worst of all, our valuable time to resolve what could easily be fixed \u2014 by them.<\/p>\n<p>Barely painted curbs, non-functioning parking meters and neglected or misplaced parking signs are obvious. Fix \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Rothschild, Santa Monica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Moral of this story: Governments should not rely on their own incompetence, inefficiencies and stubbornness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":732111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[211107,1582,276,302808,7129,302809,2961,11894,19945,224,2444,5337,302811,6459,302812,302810,286771,9503,180998,6620],"class_list":["post-732110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-assertion","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-city-government-bank","tag-editor","tag-inefficiency","tag-la","tag-lack","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-manpower","tag-money","tag-own-incompetence","tag-parking-enforcement-agency","tag-parking-ticket","tag-santa-monica","tag-stubbornness","tag-time"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116414432454675679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}