The latest e-mail from a frustrated Wilmingtonian:
I don't even know where to begin my nightmare tale......I'm still traumatized by the wrath of the city of wilmington, delaware.
The nightmare began when I first moved into the city beginning of October 2011.
For starters I have gotten 2 tickets right out front of my house for an 'over 2 hour parking limit' ticket. I had resident stickers both times on my car when they ticketed me. Trying to deal with the ingrates at the city building was a nightmareto say the least.
I have a ticket I am trying to fight where you can clearly see in the picture that I was going through a "yellow" not a red light. Still haven't heard anything back from the appeal letter I wrote.
They are such crooked-crooks. I've noticed that the lights go from green to yellow for less than a second and then immediately to red. This is a set up to glean more money from good citizens. No one has a chance with these lights. You're better off financially to stop at all green lights. Now how crazy is that?
I have had to pay so many bogus fines since Oct that I had to go without paying utility bills and other needed essentials basic to survival. The city has wrung me dry financially and drained me emotionally and psychologically.
For this reason, I am seriously considering moving out of the city even though I really like my place.
I was thinking of buying a house here in the city so I could walk to work instead of driving on I-95 every day, but this situation is seriously making me reconsider. Think I'll hold off until this parking issue improves.
ReplyDeleteI had bought a new car on saturday and switched my parking sticker from my previous car to my new car. Since the parking office is not open until 9:30 on monday, I could not renew my ticket. I called in to report my car, license, vin and location to the so-called "do-not-ticket" line. I then woke up at 9am Monday morning to renew my sticker and found a ticket on my windshield. I called in and they said they ticketed me because I did not name the correct intersection where my car was parked. I was one street over, still in the boundry of my residential zone. I have now moved to Drexel Hill, PA because $260 in parking tickets in 4 months is too much to handle.
ReplyDeleteI've lived in Little Italy for 18 years, and since my home is on a corner, I must park fairly close to the intersection without impeding traffic flow. A couple years ago, they painted the striped crosswalks, and last year, while parked in front of my own home, I received a $40 ticket for "parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk". There is ample space for the 6 homes to have one car each parked in front, but with this new law, they've changed it to only 5 spaces. So now, being a hear patient, I have to park somewhere else and walk with my groceries? I don't think so. They need to fix this $40 nightmare for elderly homeowners! What an embarrassment to the greedy City of Wilmington!
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