PITTSBURGH \u2014 Just last week, 11 Investigates introduced you to a woman who used the city\u2019s mobile app to pay to park and was ticketed anyway.<\/p>\n
PREVIOUS COVERAGE >>> Woman issued ticket in Pittsburgh despite paying to park. What happened when 11 Investigates dug in<\/a><\/p>\n Another driver has come forward after seeing our exclusive report.<\/p>\n It cost her a quarter to park, but turned into a $25 fine!<\/p>\n PREVIOUS COVERAGE >>> 11 Investigates: Pittsburgh ticketing drivers for parking in spots that aren\u2019t clearly marked<\/a><\/p>\n Chief Investigator Rick Earle has been following these parking problems in the City of Pittsburgh and spoke with another driver who says she paid to park, but was ticketed anyway. <\/p>\n PREVIOUS COVERAGE >>> Church members ticketed for parking in lot they have used for 30 years in Pittsburgh<\/a><\/p>\n She says it happened on two different occasions, both times she says she paid to park and each time got a ticket in the mail. <\/p>\n \u201cI got both tickets consecutively, like in January, from December, saying that I had parking tickets you didn\u2019t pay. Meanwhile, I knew I paid.\u201d <\/p>\n Earle: You paid and you still got a ticket? <\/p>\n Answer: \u201cYes, these new cameras that they are double-dipping the system.\u201d <\/p>\n This woman, who didn\u2019t want to be identified because of her job, says she got two parking tickets on the 2700 block of East Carson Street on the South Side in December. <\/p>\n On the 20th, she says she was sitting in her car and pulled up the app to pay for parking.<\/p>\n Her receipt says she paid 40 cents for ten minutes at 1:23, but a month later received the ticket for parking at 1:22.<\/p>\n \u201cI was sitting in my car, obviously it was winter, it was cold and I was loading the app up on my phone and getting off the CALE machine and I put it there and it still sent me a ticket saying I didn\u2019t pay,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She contested the ticket online and the authority dismissed it. <\/p>\n Then, she got another $25 ticket for parking in the same area. This time, she says she put a quarter into the kiosk for ten minutes but didn\u2019t get a receipt.<\/p>\n \u201cI paid at the machine for simply ten minutes to run into the store. I didn\u2019t print the little paper receipt because it said it wasn\u2019t necessary, so I didn\u2019t print it. I figured, save the paper, and then I get a ticket anyway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She contested that one as well, but received a letter that said: <\/p>\n \u201cAfter carefully reviewing the facts and evidence available, the parking court judge has determined that your parking ticket has been upheld. The CALE machine ((or kiosk) not paid.\u201d<\/p>\n She was just going to pay the ticket…until she saw our story about a woman in shady side who also received a ticket after paying to park. <\/p>\n Her ticket was dismissed.<\/p>\n \u201cAt first, I thought it was just and I actually kind of just gonna pay it and let it go, but then I saw your story and I said, wait, that\u2019s happening to other people. How many other people is it happening to, and they\u2019re just paying for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Earle: You saw our story and you decided you are going to fight it? <\/p>\n Answer: Yes<\/p>\n She says the parking authority is now telling her she can\u2019t appeal the ticket because she paid cash and didn\u2019t get a receipt, but she contends the authority should have a record of when she punched in her plate at the kiosk and how much she paid. <\/p>\n 11 Investigates has reached out to the parking authority. They said they are looking into the case.<\/p>\n Download the FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>. | Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n