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Where can I find the Toronto Parking Fines amounts?
Useless parking tickets facts to help break the ice
The dirty little secret the City of Toronto DOES not want you to know about parking tickets
Is there no downside to disputing a parking ticket online (parking too close to crossover)?
Is there an official resource where they actually list the parking offence and the fine amount?
I can't find an official source for it, just some random news articles.
I've been checking out the Toronto's Parking Tickets Dataset recently and found a few useless facts that might serve as ice breakers. They publish data all the way back from 2008 to 2024, but for relevancy sake I only looked at the last 4 years from 2021-24.
Q: How many parking tickets were issued in this time frame?
A: A total of 7,707,115 tickets were issued during this time with an average of 5,278.8 tickets issued per day (or 220 tix/hr, or 3.6 tix/min), totalling $446,423,660 in fines with an average of $57.92 fined per ticket.
Q: Which single location had the most parking tickets issued in this time frame?
A: 101,894 tickets were issued at 4700 Keele Street - also known as York University - over these years, an average of 70 tickets were issued per day. A total fine of $5,199,925 were dished out, or an average fine of $51.03 per ticket. Drivers, please be extra careful when parking around York U!
This has been quite fun for me. What other useless facts would you like to know?
Anyone who receives a $30 Toronto parking ticket can almost certainly dodge the fine by applying for a court date. Also tickets that say you parked without Owners consent will be tossed if you apply for a court date. The reason is the City of Toronto has to prove that you did not have the owners consent. They have to get it in writing and ain't worth the time and money for a $30 fee. I can personally vouch for this, as I've gotten many $30 tickets, three of them were parking without owner consent and I've asked for court date and I've never heard from City of Toronto about those tickets ever again.
Here's the kicker, if you DO Get called to a court date, you can go and say you are guilty they will knock the fine down to $5.00.
Also I've gotten a ticket for running a red light (Photo) and challenged it in court, and said I could not afford to pay it, they dropped it. ($190 fee) More info here.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/447162