Kiosk broken? You hold the bag - Philly.com
The Langhorne resident was running late for an 11 a. m. appointment, "but I saw this Parking Authority person a block away and asked her if she covered 12th Street. He told her about the nonfunctioning kiosk and she told him she did cover 12th Street but was not the only parking-enforcement officer who did. He was ticketed, about 15 minutes after he left a large note on his dashboard saying the kiosk would not accept his payment. I asked Balcher, 59, who runs a nonprofit, if he had checked to see if any other kiosks were on the block. "I did not look for another kiosk," he told me. He used a few precious seconds to write the note and then ran to the meeting. The hearing examiner is sure to ask him (as I once was asked) if he had tried more than one kiosk. Of course, I've heard many complaints from drivers, finding one kiosk broken and walking down the street to the next, who got ticketed while hunting for one that worked. Parking-enforcement officers are supposed to look out for drivers returning from kiosks, but some don't. PPA makes it your problem to find a working kiosk if the one closest to your parked car is broken. He also told me that when he had time left on the kiosk ticket he got at one location and tried to use it at another location,. Source: www.philly.com
