City charged $7.7 million in parking ticket late fees
The city of Boston charged $7.7 million in late fees added to parking violations over the course of its last fiscal year, The Boston Globe reports.
During fiscal 2015, which ended in June, the city issued a total of $59.4 million in parking violation fines. The $7.7 million in late fees accounted for 13 percent of that total.
Late fees range from $5 (for a $15 fine) up to $40 (for a $40 fine). (A full list is available here.)
The Globe broke down the types of parking-related fines and determined that the most common fine was for failure to pay a parking meter. There were 349,555 tickets issued for unpaid meter violations, with fines totalling $8,738,875.
Read the full story and checkout the detailed breakdown of parking-related fines issued at the Globe.
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