A few weeks ago, I was written a parking ticket in downtown Vernon.
It’s not my first, but this time I chose to dispute it and it was overturned.
The meter had started flashing 0:00 before my time was up and according to the time written on the parking ticket, the traffic bylaw officer had started filling the ticket out before the meter expired.
I recently walked past the same stretch of parking to witness a bylaw officer writing another ticket with the meter flashing 0:00.
I was under the impression from watching our mayor on TV that there was a five-minute grace period for parking meters — that the meter was not ticket-able until it flashed red/expired.
If this is the case, our bylaw officers are a bit overenthusiastic.
If this is the case, I wonder how many other people are being ticketed who shouldn’t be.
Darlene Martens
Vernon
