The City of Hamilton earned millions of dollars last year thanks to parking tickets. Some drivers admit to being confused when parking their cars so we spoke with a by-law supervisor to clear things up.

For the most part, drivers in Hamilton know where and when to park their cars, but for others, there’s still room for interpretation, and those drivers end up paying for it. City by-law officers handed out about 138,000 parking tickets last year bringing in more than $4.7-million. With each ticket there are just as many excuses.

A gripe by some drivers is the number of signs on a single pole, mike newell says there’s a reason for that. The top sign is what you read first and foremost the rest of the signs are for temporary street cleaning purposes, if you understand the date and time you’re there and you can incorporate by just looking at the sign taking a few minutes to really understand it, there shouldn’t be an issue.

The city it hopes to implement machines that take cards and coins in municipal car parks this summer. Pay-by-phone technology could also be introduced by the end of the year.

Officers normally give vehicles a 10 minute grace period in no parking zones, but are less likely to be lenient in cars in no stopping areas, especially if the signs are there for safety reasons.