Thursday, January 31, 2013

Non-payment of parking tickets in Trail, B.C., could get you the (immobilizing) boot


Trail city councillors are prepared to resort to using an immobilizer boot on vehicles owned by people who ignore multiple parking tickets, after only 40 per cent of all tickets were paid last year. (Online, traderscity.com)

Timothy Schafer, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:09 PM
TRAIL, B.C. — Scofflaws in Trail, beware: The boot beckons if parking tickets go unpaid. Councillors in the southeastern B.C. city say the immobilizing device is expected to be shoehorned onto downtown streets as Trail struggles to collect more than $150,000 worth of unpaid fines racked up over the last four years. Council is preparing to adopt a traffic bylaw amendment that would allow use of the device, in hopes of convincing more drivers to pay parking tickets. In 2012, the percentage of paid tickets dropped to 42 per cent, down from 63 per cent four years ago, amounting to $43,000 in unpaid fines last year alone.

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