What is going on with the out of control ticketing in Vernon/Jackson?

Hello metermaids of LIC – are you guys working on some kind of commission structure these days? I’ve noticed an unusual amount of parking ticketing going on lately, especially on 48th Ave. Apparently I’m not the only one.

A liQcity reader writes:

Was walking down 48th ave this afternoon – I swear more than 20% of the cars had towing chalk or remnants of tickets from the last few days (paper on the windshield marks) – is LIC and our bad parking signs / information about where it is legal to park nothing but a cash cow for the city?

A while ago I parked in front of a construction site on a side street just off of Vernon. There was no indication that parking was prohibited, and the curb was a lovely shade of steel grey (read: not yellow). Of course, they towed me anyway, and upon dealing with the police, it took them 5 days to even acknowledge they towed my car. Sigh. Watch out. Those construction sites are not allowed to prohibit parking unless they have a permit to do so. Most of them don’t. So technically it’s legal to park there… but that means your local police department has to have a clue and understand the law.

As a side note – though I’ve seen a lot of tickets, some of the paper remnants stuck to windshields is the postcard spamming being done by You Know Who. Between the police and YKW, our cars don’t stand a chance of being left alone in peace.