District rings up millions in parking ticket revenue

The District's efficient corps of parking meter enforcement officers are raking in revenue for the cash-strapped city at a dizzying rate this year.

Their parking tickets reap $1.5 million a week, or $219,000 a day, or $450 a minute or $8 a second, according to the folks at AAA, who are fond of dissecting numbers like the overall $80 million in ticket revenue last year.

The numbers are up sharply this year, AAA said, with more than $50 million collected by May.

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Neil Irwin 24 Aug, 2011


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