ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – You’ve seen it and maybe even ignored one yourself. A $20 parking ticket in Roanoke might not seem like much. But when hundreds of people skip out on paying, it starts to pile up fast.
Right now, PARK Roanoke is chasing down around $145,000 in unpaid tickets. That missing money is not just disappearing; it’s holding up improvement projects downtown.
“All of our money goes back into the parking program,” Brian Mann, enterprise administrator for PARK Roanoke, said. “So, everything gets reinvested back into capital maintenance, infrastructure, paying off the debt of the current garages.”…