Ticket issuers park illegally

Washington Times ^ | 4-2-07 | Jim McElhatton

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D.C. parking officers have been allowed to get away with flouting the laws they're paid to enforce.

Many officers have been leaving their private vehicles parked illegally in front of the city's public works complex in Northeast before fanning across the District in city-issued cars to ticket other motorists.

On a typical day last week, six vehicles were parked all day in tow-away zones in front of the complex, in the 2000 and 2100 blocks of West Virginia Avenue Northeast. Seven were parked in the driveway of a nearby warehouse. One was parked three feet from a fire hydrant, and another rested partly on a sidewalk. Dozens of other vehicles were parked for longer than the posted four-hour maximum. However, none of them had parking tickets on the windshields.

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"The point is well taken. They will be ticketed," said Miss Adams, who did not know the number of illegally parked vehicles on West Virginia Avenue that belonged to ticket issuers.

Of course, what happens to those tickets later has a less than clear resolution...