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Court no place to fight parking ticket: Data Review. Evaluation by parking-authority staff more likely to favour customer, statistics indicate Jeremy nolais
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Homes in Lancaster, Texas, lie destroyed by a tornado. Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor-trailers strewn along highways and parking lots. Khampha Bouaphanh/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram/the associated press
Charged parking violators wanting their day in court face almost insurmountable odds, data suggests. A few thousand city motorists go before a judge each year to protest a fine
issued by the Calgary Parking Authority, but less than 0.23 per cent — or one in 425 cases — see the violation overturned. Contributing factors to the authority’s successful conviction rate include diligent staff as well as photographic evidence with a recorded timing of the violation that comes courtesy of the automated ParkPlus system, suggested manager Troy McLeod. “Our goal is really to achieve compliance,” he added. Accused parking violators do have another, more successful option in the
form of an administrative review. About 50 per cent of those claims resulted in the fine being overturned last year. But it appears some residents remain unimpressed. Local chef Jonathan Kennard filed for a review last year after receiving a violation ticket in his neighbourhood, even though he claims he holds a residential parking pass. “I got a letter a few weeks later saying the officer doesn’t agree, so my ticket still stands,” he said. “I now have five or six — I don’t even look at them anymore.”
A buried past, Homeless take Defending uncovered centre stage ‘Dani-dollars’ Looking to locate a grave? There may soon be an app for that. The city is working toward a guide to more than 120,000 interments page 3
From on the streets to offBroadway: Members of Calgary’s homeless community will perform in a New York production this summer page 4
The Wildrose leader has fightin’ words on the campaign trail for opponents who criticized her petrogiveback promise page 6
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