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Beat Your Ticket Without Leaving Your Car NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple's iPhone does so much more than make phone calls. It's so cool it might help you get out of a parking ticket! Parkingticket.com today announced full compatibility of its online service with the Safari web browser on the Apple iPhone, enabling an iPhone user to immediately contest a parking ticket the moment it is issued. The iPhone, combined with its versatile camera revolutionizes the way people can...

Canada's capital city, Ottawa, has admitted it was overzealous in ticketing and towing parked cars and says it will drop the tickets and towing charges. There was an uproar Monday when trucks towed nine vehicles and issued tickets to others parked in a bus lane on a street motorists said they've been parking on since a transit strike shut down bus service a month ago. The city issued a news release announcing stricter parking enforcement in the area Friday, but clearly, few drivers heard...

PRESS CONFERENCE TUESDAY, JANUARY 6TH, 2009 AT 11:00 AM THE PLAZA HOTEL CENTRAL PARK VIEW THE PULITZER ROOM LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED RSVP TELEPHONE NUMBER: (201) 291-7878 "Now ... you can get paid to fight your parking ticket." A demonstration of how New Yorkers can get paid to fight a parking ticket. NEW YORK, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Now, for the first time ever, you can get paid to fight your parking ticket. In a city where more than 80% of the public does not...

NEW YORK, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Now, for the first time ever, you can get paid to fight your parking ticket. In a city where more than 80% of the public does not exercise their legal right to contest parking tickets a new program will get you paid to fight yours. "The City has hired 793 new ticket agents but the public doesn't have the time to fight every unfair ticket. Because we want them to fight every unfair ticket and to make sure it's worth people's time we are going to...

Although generally unnoticed by the public, New York City will sharply reduce most parking fines if the driver questions the ticket, officials say.The discount has been on the books for almost three years but most people, some 80 percent by city estimates, pay the whole amount, The New York Times said Friday.Any driver who challenges a parking ticket in person, in writing or online, is usually offered a substantial, guaranteed reduction under a program quietly introduced in 2005. For example,...

A New York man said he has been fighting the same parking ticket for more than two years, causing the fine to nearly double. Simon Belsky, 61, said he was issued a $115 fine Nov. 3, 2006, for allegedly blocking a fire hydrant with his parked 1990 Chrysler van. But he claims the only hydrant in sight when he parked was a good distance down the block, the New York Post reported Monday. The fine has since increased to $200 with penalties, but Belsky said he does not plan to give up the fight. I...

By Eric Kurhi HAYWARD -- Mind those meters: The cost of a parking ticket just went up by a lot more than chump change. So did nearly all other nonmoving-vehicle violations, after Hayward revised its fee and fine schedule last week in what officials said was a "necessary adjustment." Many of the fines were at the bottom end of the spectrum when compared with other cities in Alameda County, said Debra Auker, Hayward's finance director. Now they're at the top, effective immediately. That...