Last week, my husband and I had an appointment at Marketplace, so we paid for an hour of parking. After 50 minutes, our business was completed and we headed back to our car. We noticed that we had a parking ticket on the windshield. Luckily, my husband had kept the printed receipt, and the parking attendant was nearby.
We asked him why we had gotten a $70 parking ticket and showed him our receipt.
He studied both the receipt and the ticket carefully and then said he didn’t know why that had happened. Then, the manager of the parking company came over and said the pay parking ticket machine was offline, which happens every now and then.
So, the lesson of this incident is that you should always keep a copy of your pay parking receipt, because how many people have unknowingly paid a $70 ticket, not realizing that they did not overstay, but that the machine was offline?
On another note, the parking manager claimed that the Marketplace businesses appreciate the pay parking, but in actual fact, not having at least one hour of free parking for locals to do some business there negatively affects the businesses.
The only person profiting from the Marketplace pay parking is the owner of the lot who must be laughing all the way to the bank.
