Yet Another Parking Ticket Thread...
So, I bring my van up to campus late last night, park it in one of the many lots, go pack up some stuff, etc. I set my alarm for 5:30AM so I can get up and go buy a day-long parking pass so that I won't get ticketed when I am parking on campus.
I wake up at 5:30, go get my van, drive around for a bit... 6AM comes. I figure, I'll waste another 5, 10 minutes. Get to the parking gate nearest my dorm around 6:10AM (the gates all (should) open at 6AM), no one is there, reader board confirms it's closed. My first thought - well, someone is just really late to this gate today.
So I go to the main gate to the UW campus, where there are two gatehouses - no one is present, and both reader boards identify them as closed - it is 6:20AM by this point.
Being that it is finals week, the dorms are closing, I said "forget it", I have tried two of the main gatehouses, they were both closed - either they are holding weird hours this week, or something, but I can't get ticketed for parking on campus if none of the gatehouses were open so that I could buy a parking pass.
Well, obviously, I was wrong. I come out of my dorm to drop off a load of clothes in my van, yep, I got a ticket. 7:36AM.
The fine is not that big, $25. I am not complaining about getting a ticket because I parked in a parking area that required a campus parking permit that you can purchase from the gatehouses.
What I am curious about is if I have any recourse or action I can take on account of both gatehouses being closed and unmanned a full 20 minutes after their posted opening times. Thoughts on this?
So, I bring my van up to campus late last night, park it in one of the many lots, go pack up some stuff, etc. I set my alarm for 5:30AM so I can get up and go buy a day-long parking pass so that I won't get ticketed when I am parking on campus.
I wake up at 5:30, go get my van, drive around for a bit... 6AM comes. I figure, I'll waste another 5, 10 minutes. Get to the parking gate nearest my dorm around 6:10AM (the gates all (should) open at 6AM), no one is there, reader board confirms it's closed. My first thought - well, someone is just really late to this gate today.
So I go to the main gate to the UW campus, where there are two gatehouses - no one is present, and both reader boards identify them as closed - it is 6:20AM by this point.
Being that it is finals week, the dorms are closing, I said "forget it", I have tried two of the main gatehouses, they were both closed - either they are holding weird hours this week, or something, but I can't get ticketed for parking on campus if none of the gatehouses were open so that I could buy a parking pass.
Well, obviously, I was wrong. I come out of my dorm to drop off a load of clothes in my van, yep, I got a ticket. 7:36AM.
The fine is not that big, $25. I am not complaining about getting a ticket because I parked in a parking area that required a campus parking permit that you can purchase from the gatehouses.
What I am curious about is if I have any recourse or action I can take on account of both gatehouses being closed and unmanned a full 20 minutes after their posted opening times. Thoughts on this?
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