http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/11/more-parking-tickets-in-dc/ A Washington DC insider’s travel guide that’s full of area information for both tourists and residents. Covers area attractions, activities, events, nightlife, memorials and monuments, historic sites, museums, the Smithsonian, site see Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:38:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.thedctraveler.com/2007/11/more-parking-tickets-in-dc/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Don Felipe Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:14:40 +0000 http://www.thedctraveler.com/more-parking-tickets-in-dc/#comment-1528 Not only the street sweepers, but unmarked vans with cameras (2, one each side) on the roof. These vans cruise with the shotgun person working a laptop. They scan meter parkers and write-up cars of "meter feeders" who violate the 2-hour max. I had been moving my car every 2 hours at unmetered street spots and got a $30 ticket with a notation that the car had been moved from one street to another perpendicular street. I plan to fight it but these DC metermaids are relentless. They make their notes then return 2hrs later to write 'em up. It sux! Not only the street sweepers, but unmarked vans with cameras (2, one each side) on the roof. These vans cruise with the shotgun person working a laptop. They scan meter parkers and write-up cars of “meter feeders” who violate the 2-hour max. I had been moving my car every 2 hours at unmetered street spots and got a $30 ticket with a notation that the car had been moved from one street to another perpendicular street. I plan to fight it but these DC metermaids are relentless. They make their notes then return 2hrs later to write ‘em up. It sux!

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