What is the average cost of a parking ticket?
What is the average cost of a parking ticket? Ask anyone who lives in a city and they’ll tell you a good parking space can be a prime piece of real estate. In metro Boston, as well as Chicago and New York, spaces are marked as owned by intrepid land-grabbers with lawn chairs, furniture and the occasional savage dog. Something as good as a prime parking spot is worth fighting for. Cities think the same, too. But they protect their spaces with a different tactic — they hit the wallet. However, just how much they hit the wallet is a complex alchemic formula balancing revenue generation and behavioral science. Some cities come up with gold while others are left with lead. Prices can range from about $10 to $20 in New Hampshire cities, to more than $50 in areas of metro Los Angeles. And this leads to the question of an average price of a parking ticket, which, in turn, leads to the answer, “It depends.” But there are a few constants among the variables. First off we’ll take the idea of a p
