You can battle City Hall and you might possibly win, however why trouble yourself when you can obtain an app to do your defending for you?Fixed is one of the applications that combats your vehicle parking tickets for you, with the wipe of a hand on a mobile phone as the only action on your part that is required.According to NPR, concerning fifty percent of auto parking tickets in San Francisco are disregarded (What a shock)– yet surviving the process is taxing and typically leads individuals that would obtain a “get out of jail free card” to pay up like usual scofflaws.But by utilizing the Fixed app, ticketed motorists can hire a supporter to eliminate a vehicle parking ticket for them. If the fixer succeeds, customers pay the app 25 percent of what the ticket would cost.If the ticket stands up then the worst that can happen is you pay it anyway and you do not pay Fixed (customers just owe the ticket) nothing more.Not bad when time is money.Founder David Hegarty says the application is offered simply in San Francisco at the moment but that he’s been hearing pleas from drivers in Los Angeles.
App Can Get You Out of Parking Tickets
Can’t fight City Hall? Get an app to do it for you.
A new service, WinIt, says it will battle New York parking tickets on your behalf — and collect only half of what the city would.
A group of lawyers and ex-judges comb through every line of a summons looking for a technicality that can get you off the hook.
Joseph Ortega, 57, a Staten Island telecommunications worker, says he drives his cherry-picker van all over the city and averages one fine a week — ranging from $65 to $115 — as he’s forced to park illegally to access job sites. He had three tickets dismissed using the app.
If WinIt wins, you pay them 50 percent of the dropped fine. If you lose, you pay the fine but don’t owe WinIt. They’ve won about 50 percent of cases since launching in March.
“If I had the kind of money where it didn’t matter, I wouldn’t be getting the parking tickets, my limo driver would be,” said Ortega.
Last fiscal year the city issued 9.4 million parking tickets, exceeding $546 million in fines.
“For the life of me, I cannot figure out why you wouldn’t dispute a ticket,” said Christian Fama, 30, one of the co-owners of WinIt and an exec at Empire Commercial Services, a company that fights parking violations for businesses.
WinIt’s founders, Ari Lemmel, 25, and Dan Azeroual, 27, partnered with Empire, which researches the tickets and sends its lawyers to the city’sdowntown tribunal on John St. to fight the tickets.Watch movie online The Transporter Refueled (2015)
One lawyer can dispute hundreds of tickets per day, arguing everything from license plates or car models were filled out incorrectly, to alternate-side parking rules changing due to the weather, or mis-dated tickets.
“We’ve got over a quarter of a billion tickets dismissed over a 25-year period,” Fama said. “We know how to beat the tickets.”
The dark side, of course, is the app seems to embolden scofflaws.
One real-estate developer,Ryan Khordipour, 30 who’s had six tickets dismissed in the last two months, says it’s cheaper and easier to park illegally and fight the ticket than to follow the law.
“It’s worth $32.50 to not have the hassle of using the [parking meter] machines that never work,” he said. “I know this sounds bourgeois and snobby and ridiculous but this is the math I’m making in my head,” said the Upper East Side resident.
Around 300 fines have already been dismissed — a 50% win rate — since the app launched in late March.
