Hoboken Parking Officers Write A Ticket Every 20 Minutes: Report

HOBOKEN, NJ — If you’re a Hoboken resident or visitor who takes their car into the Mile Square City, it may be more unlikely that you’ve never gotten a ticket, a report says.

Last year, the city issued 144,335 parking tickets, which comes out to almost three for every resident, NJ101.5 recently reported.

The municipality’s enforcement of its regulations are allegedly strict: Hoboken parking officers are required to notify a supervisor if they go 20 minutes without writing a ticket, the report stated.

Read the full 101.5 report here.

Those responsible for enforcing the laws are often held to high standards, although municipal spokespeople have stopped short of calling the goals a “quota.”

A former city parking enforcement officer was dismissed from her post after allegedly going for long stretches without issuing a ticket, drawing charges of “incompetency, insubordination and neglect of duty,” a decision upheld by a New Jersey Civil Service Commission panel in February.

• Learn more about parking (and how NOT to get a ticket) in Hoboken here.

• See related article: Hoboken Officials Announce Hybrid Parking Plan

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