All around Milwaukee these little white and blue jeeps can be seen scanning the parked cars. They are the ones making sure that cars are only parked in certain places for no more than two hours and that meters have money in them. And it all is not in order out comes the clipboard and scanning gun to hand out a ticket.
All of the streets that we have seen so far have signs on that stating when and where you can and cannot park. This is normal for any city. However Milwaukee has a little trick up it's sleeve. On "main" roads, such as Wisconsin or Wells there are signs that tell you that there is no over night parking on those roads...what the signs don't tell you is there is no over night parking on any roads within the city (without a permit that is...). How you are supposed to know that is beyond me.
On Wednesday our friend Jake from Pittsburgh stopped for a visit on his way to Tacoma. He got into Milwaukee around 5pm, so we figured he would be okay to park this car on our street until the morning. But we were wrong. At 4:29am Jake was given a ticket because he was parked overnight without a permit. What we learned from this is that you can get a permit to park over night by calling the parking authority and paying a fee, but the question remains, how do you know to call them if you don't know that you need a permit to park overnight?
2 comments:
completely illogical. no response from them yet, so hopefully i can get away without paying!
Yeah, good luck with that. My ticket, for the exact same infraction, has doubled from $25 to $50, even after I wrote a letter to parking enforcement the same day I got home to Minnesota, explaining that I was an out-of-towner and didn't see any signs indicating I couldn't park overnight. I was told by the person at the phone number I called that they'd dismiss the ticket if I gave a written explanation. ASSHOLES. They have lost a tourist forever.
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