Drivers in Denver have been grappling with a change to the way parking tickets are disputed that is causing headaches — and might mean some drivers have to pay more than the initial infraction.
As CBS News Colorado reports, the city of Denver changed the process for disputing a parking ticket in September 2025, eliminating a system where tickets could be disputed online (1). CBS reported that although the city’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure said a new system would be in place for 2026, that hasn’t happened.
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This has led to a spike in requests for in-person parking ticket hearings. From January to September 2025, the monthly average for in-person hearings was just six, but that average jumped to 206 per month in Q4 2025.
‘Denver, we have a problem’
CBS spoke with one Denver resident who said she had been ticketed after she parked in a residential permitted area. Danna Lingo has stage 4 cancer, as well as a disability placard for parking, as it can be challenging for her to walk long distances.
She thought her placard allowed her to park in the residential permitted area because some other cities allow it. Denver, however, does not, a lesson that Lingo learned the hard way. She wanted to dispute the ticket because “there should be a provision for ADA parking,” Lingo told CBS…