{"id":270720,"date":"2026-04-16T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:03:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-city-governments-bank-on-our-lack-of-time-to-fight-parking-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270720\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: City governments bank on our lack of time to fight parking tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: Moral of this story: Governments should not rely on their own incompetence, inefficiencies and stubbornness as a revenue stream to bilk us, the taxpayers (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-13\/he-did-everything-right-his-los-angeles-parking-fine-kept-growing-anyway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHe did everything right. His Los Angeles parking fine kept growing anyway,\u201d<\/a> April 13).<\/p>\n<p>What happened to Paul Cook and his parking ticket pretty much exactly happened to me with the city of Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>Contesting wrongful assessments like these is difficult or impossible when you hold a full-time job. But city governments bank on our lack of time.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than dismiss our claims, parking enforcement agencies should budget money and manpower to check the veracity of our assertions, which are usually not made-up. Instead, they waste court and administrative resources and, worst of all, our valuable time to resolve what could easily be fixed \u2014 by them.<\/p>\n<p>Barely painted curbs, non-functioning parking meters and neglected or misplaced parking signs are obvious. Fix \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Rothschild, Santa Monica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Moral of this story: Governments should not rely on their own incompetence, inefficiencies and stubbornness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56585,117643,2072,36328,48,52,51,47928,1838,47,50,49,63,117645,4263,117647,117644,116151,8267,117646,315],"class_list":{"0":"post-270720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-assertion","9":"tag-city-government-bank","10":"tag-editor","11":"tag-inefficiency","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-lack","16":"tag-letter","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-news","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-manpower","22":"tag-money","23":"tag-own-incompetence","24":"tag-parking-enforcement-agency","25":"tag-parking-ticket","26":"tag-santa-monica","27":"tag-stubbornness","28":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}