Man plans to fight parking ticket altered after the fact
An Edmonton man plans to fight a ticket he received in August for parking at an expired meter on a street where there are no parking meters.
Koran Merth received the ticket Aug. 28 after parking on 117th Street just north of 100th Avenue.
After he complained, the city added the words "park in no parking zone" to the ticket and crossed out "park at expired meter."
While Merth admits his back bumper edged a little past the no parking sign on the street, he believes the city was wrong to change the ticket after the fact.
"The only reason that this ticket is happening is because I informed them there are no meters on this street," he said, "and they scrambled and they changed the nature of the charge on the ticket to conform to what reality says is here."
Chrystal Coleman, a spokeswoman for the city's community services department, acknowledged an error was made on the first ticket.
She said people who dispute a parking ticket can ask the city for a review.
"If the citizen is unhappy with the decision from the city, he/she has the option to further pursue the matter in court," Coleman said in an email.
Merth plans to fight the ticket on a matter of principle.
"This isn't actually about $75," he said. "This is about my rights as a Canadian in my opinion being trampled upon by the city."
