AC Transit parking trap in oakland, hayward etc.

Are you in AC Transit parking trap ? This is a tip to tackle it. This trap has two steps to deal with before you can contest it in real court. These two steps are torture on you to give up and pay. First step is : clerical review Second step is: Administrative review. Do not waste your energy to think much during these two steps. Just pay them or request fee waiver in your very first letter to them. Do not try to call them, it is there to make you more frustrated and give up. It is so designed. No matter what you say or show the output is the same during these two steps. And it denial. Wait for final denial letter after administative review. You need this letter to file appeal with the court. After the final review letter the real contest starts. Take that letter to nearest superior court in alameda county. There are five or six courts in alameda county. I guess you do not need to go there. You can download forms from internet and mail them with $25 filing fee to superior court clerk. Also read instructions on the forms. I will find and paste a link here. In the court show your eveidence or your side. Hopefully you will get the real judgement. And this judgement will be a blow to these trapper. You may not want to go through these hassle but you should because this is a only way to show them that there is law and order in this country.

AC Transit Bus Zone Parking Ticket Drama

hello all,

I am going to share with you my experience with Alameda County Transit Bus Zone parking ticket. March 05, 2009 I went to oakland IRS office. Since I am not from oakland I got directions from yahoo and could not find car parking near the IRS office. Going round and round I found a street where I could park my car. Initially it looked like too good to be true. But I saw a car parked there already and saw no such sign saying no parking or anything which will make me think "Do not park here". Two hours later I came back to my car and there was a ticket on wind screen. I had parked my car in bus zone.

It was surprise to me. There was another surprise when i read it. It was for $250.00. Another surprise: i looked like a ticket from traffic cop but the information was not.

Since there was no sign for "No parking or Bus Zone" Or marked curb etc. so I took pictures to have my case in the court. I will not think about contesting if it will not be costing me that much ?

After a week or so i got letter from parking enforcement center in Irvine. The letter strongly asked me to pay in bold letters and in small letters it said that i can request a clerical review. It didn't talk about any court etc. I got confused and requested clerical review. I sent them pictures and explaining that sign is missing. I was pretty confidence that they will understand it and after verifying they will cancel this ticket.

This was not the case though. I got letter after another week. The letter asked me to pay immediately and also gave me option of administrative review. I was upset by their decision. I have gut feeling that they didn't even look at the pictures or the letter i sent them. To say "No" was their standard procedure, i assumed. I requested administrative review but i didn't have money to pay so i sent it without money. I didn't see anywhere any explaination about not paying but still getting administrative review. I thought may be a plain letter explaining my inability to pay will get me administrative hearing. I was wrong. I got another letter saying my request for admnistrative hearing has been denied because i didn't pay the citation money.

It made me even more upset. I should not have ticket at the first place. Some asshole officer wrote it anyway. Now they won't let me appeal it. Their was threat this time. Pay by that day or they will block my car registration and there will be $100.00 late payment panality. How they justified $100.00 ?? or they just picked a number to charge me ? Anyway, i do not want them to mess up with my DMV record so i sent them $250.00 plus some harsh words explaining them that they are violating my basic rights of consititution. By this time I was thinking that I am dealing with this agency only. There will be no court so I also warn them to file a civil law suit against them.

I got another letter after 15 days. I had a hearing in Sheriff's office. I expected a little hope here. I made color copies of the pictures i had.

In sheriff's office on hearing day, a hearing office escorted me to his office and asked me what I have (very rude). We were one on one. It didn't appeal much to me. I told him there was no sign. If I see a sign I probably won't be parking there. I showed him pictures. He askeed me about parking meters. I told him there was none. He told me if there is no parking meter then it is not parking.

Total bulshit. This person even had attitude. I remined myself that i am in a Sheriff's office. These asshole can do anything here. I got scared and thanked hearing officer for his time.

After 10 days I got another letter saying my administrative hearing resulted in denial. There were some civil codes thereexplaning that I can appeal this decision in oakland superior court.

It was feeling winner here already. Why ? Because now i do not have to deal with these assholes anymore. There will be a court and there will be a Judge. Without delay I filled appeal with court. I went to court clerk's office. But It was also possible by mail. I will document whole procedure, so others do not have to learn by doing it. They can just follow the procedure and save time and efforts.