{"id":221658,"date":"2026-06-17T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221658\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:58:07","slug":"ppa-ticketing-around-philadelphias-lemon-hill-fifa-fan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221658\/","title":{"rendered":"PPA ticketing around Philadelphia\u2019s Lemon Hill FIFA Fan Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Parking Authority is making sure any tickets issued to permit holders around the FIFA Fan Festival in Fairmount are canceled.\n<\/p>\n<p>Gabe Roberts, PPA\u2019s acting director, said during the first five days of the festival at Lemon Hill, workers covered almost 600 city blocks around East Fairmount Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>In total, 3,169 tickets were issued, 181 of which were issued in error. Those wrongly issued have been corrected after officials compared license plates with active permits, Roberts said.\n  <\/p>\n<p>The cancellation process also applies to the handful of people whose cars were incorrectly towed. Roberts said any money paid for towing will also be refunded.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also going to be notifying residents as well through the mail, and we\u2019re also looking at a way of making phone calls out to those folks,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we know the angst that a ticket on the windshield can cause, especially one that you didn\u2019t earn.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2234,69,71,70,5204,23252,2237],"class_list":["post-221658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lemon-hill","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-parking-authority","tag-ppa","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}