Politics & Government
Parking in Echo Park, Silver Lake Gets Slightly Easier as City Council Changes Meter Policy
No longer will people get ticketed in Los Angeles for parking at a broken meter.
The Los Angeles City Council, this week, voted to allow drivers to park at broken parking meters.
The council voted 13-0 to rescind the policy and to revisit the decision in six months -- to ensure there is no increase in vandalism of meters by people hoping to avoid paying.
The policy will be lifted immediately.
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This rescinds a policy implemented in 2012 to override state law and ticket cars parked at vandalized or otherwise broken meters. Now a car can be parked at a broken meter for free for the length of time allowed without receiving a ticket.
The city's parking meter technicians defended the citation policy last week, saying that before it was adopted, people intentionally jammed parking meters by slipping paper clips into coin slots, or they wrapped meters in plastic bags to make them appear broken.
-City News Service contributed to this report
The city's parking meter technicians defended the citation policy last week, saying that before it was adopted, people intentionally jammed parking meters by slipping paper clips into coin slots, or they wrapped meters in plastic bags to make them appear broken.
-City News Service contributed to this report
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