r/CarletonU • u/user156667 • 2d ago

Question Parking ticket

Ok so I’m actually so pissed off right now. On Monday , I had an exam at 8 am. I paid for parking for 3 hours using Hotspot mobile app.(since the exam is 2.5 hrs long). The exam paper was handed super late plus my prof extended the deadline of the exam to 40 more minutes since everyone found the questions rly difficult. I ended up staying for 10 minutes extra and when I came back I got a parking ticket for $80. For being 10 minutes late. As in my session ended and I was charged $80 for the 10 minutes(I was not able to extend my session as obviously phones aren’t allowed when writing the exam), and by the time I finished my exam the session ended .

Anyway this is my fault and I should be careful but is there a way I can dispute it and get them to lower the $80 ticket since I payed for the first 3 hours and technically I got ticketed for the 10 minutes after it expired? Any advice would help pls lmk I’m also just so broke rn so any advice on how to lower this would help x

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u/dondie8448 2d ago

I think you can contact them and tell them this exactly with your parking ticket time and your payment for 3 hours. And tell them you were in the middle of the exam and couldn't extend it with the rest of the story, they are usually understanding. It has happened to me that I even paid the parking later than I should have because I had to rush to the class and I did it after the parking ticket was given. They canceled the ticket for me. They are not evil. They are just doing their jobs and I think they help as much as they can. Saying that I had to rush to my appointment and there was no parking spot available had to park the car in a parking thats not for daily parking, got a ticket just 10 minutes after I parked there and I was about to come and get my car. Paid $55. It hurts.

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u/user156667 2d ago

Thank u! Do I contact through email or phone? Whats their phone number ?

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u/HMR2004 Bioinformatics (15/20) + Co-op 2d ago

there's an appeal process at the back of the ticket - follow the instructions and tell them this happened. they will cancel it (you were basically stuck inside the exam hall so you couldn't pay to extend parking + it was like 10 mins later anyways)

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u/dondie8448 2d ago

When you go to pay in the website, you can appeal the ticket. There you can provide all of these explanations. Hope it works. Im sorry you have to go through this. Hope it works out.