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Parking Tickets in Chestnut Hill Nearly Double

The number of parking tickets issued this time last year has gone up quite a bit since the kiosks have been installed.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority has been busy in Chestnut Hill this summer. Since the kiosk payment system was , there has been an extra enforcement officer assigned to Chestnut Hill.

Though the PPA reported that the addition has the way the neighborhood is monitored, Linda Miller, spokeswoman for the PPA, reported that the numbers have gone up this summer compared to last year. Here are the stats:

  •  In July 2011, 498 violations were given in Chestnut Hill.
  • This July, that number rose to 1094.
  • In August 2011, 708 tickets were distributed.
  • This August, the PPA distributed 1019.

Visitors and residents of Chestnut Hill have noticed the upswing. Earlier this month, a regular at McNally’s wrote a of Chestnut Hill Patch stating that the new parking system would lose regular customers:

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“Shame on us for not being more attentive. It cost us $56. Shame on McNally's and the Chestnut Hill Business Association for letting their previously free parking be changed to another revenue source for the City of Philadelphia,” Jeffrey Meyers said in the letter.

On Wednesday, a Chestnut Hill Patch Facebook user Leslie Dotson Dallas responded to a questions about getting parking tickets, “Yes, behind Tavern on the Hill on a Sat. night, between 9pm and 10:30pm; $26 ~ very annoying! Just naturally think after 6pm, there is free parking, which it *should* be!”

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