With many major metropolitan areas in need of revenue, motorists in some cities across the country have seen an increase in the amount of tickets being handed out by authorities this year.
Following the city of Chicago’’s leasing of its parking meters to a private company last December – which has so far resulted in numerous complaints of broken meters and spawned a lawsuit – the city has seen a 26 percent jump in the amount of parking tickets issued in 2009.
According to the Chicago Tribune, records from the city Department of Revenue show that police have issued approximately 327,650 tickets for meter violations in the first eight months of 2009 and totaled approximately $119.2 million in revenue.
The revenue numbers were $7 million higher than figures from the same time period in 2008 that only saw 259,849 tickets issued.
Similarly, outside of New York City in Suffolk County, New York Newsday reported that county executive Steve Levy found that deputy sheriffs had written twice as many traffic tickets between March 15 and September 15 than they had in the six months prior.
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