Calgary's hot spots for parking tickets

ACBC Marketplaceinvestigation into parking ticket trends in six cities acrossCanada has revealed that city-operatedparkadeshere in Calgary are ticket hot spots.

The investigation looked at city-operated parking on streets, inparkadesand outdoor lots. The results showthatparkadesin Calgary's corerepresented five outof the six top spots forparking tickets in 2015 through the city'sParkPluspayment and enforcement system.

The City CentreParkade,at 34010thAvenue S.W., topped the list with 8,564tickets last year.

Even though the city issued 283,070 parking tickets in 2015, that's still fewer tickets per capita than Halifax, Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg.

Additionally, the Calgary Parking Authority says 23,292 of those tickets were appealed and 71 per cent of those were cancelled.

Calgary's parking ticket hot spots(2015)

• Calgary Centre Parkade, 340 -10thAvenue S.W.- 8,564 tickets
• Calgary Zoo's north parking lot - 4,735 tickets
• Parkade at 115 - 4th Avenue S.W. - 3,662tickets
• City Hall Parkade, 322 -9th Avenue S.E. - 2,898 tickets
• Parkade at628 - 9th Avenue S.W. - 2,769 tickets
• Convention Centre Parkade, 727 - 1st Street S.E. - 2,375 tickets
• Outdoor lot at 208 - 9th Avenue S.W. - 1,654 tickets
• McDougall Centre Parkade, 455 - 6th Street S.W.- 1,237 tickets
• Outdoor lot at724 - 4th Street S.E. - 1,116 tickets
• 16th Avenue S.W. between 7th Street and 8th Street - 902 tickets

Click onthe map to see where the those tickets were issued in downtown Calgary.

• To see which city-patrolled street parking zones get the most tickets, see:Calgary's most-ticketed parking zones: Top 20 spots for violations
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