Swept Away

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Aug. 8, 2009

Long Beach's Anthony Clark founded Ticket Haters because he was tired of the hundreds of street sweeping tickets he and his neighbors were getting. For $5 a month, Ticket Haters will call, e-mail or text you when it's time to move your car. Kevin Ferguson spoke with Anthony Clark and Gary Delong, Clark's city councilman, who loved the idea so much he's considering buying it for his teenage daughters.

Kevin Ferguson
Tickethaters.com founder Anthony Clark (right) and Customer Service Manager Chris Cottrell (left).

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Michael Davidson
7 months ago

After Ticket Haters was written up in The District Weekly here in Long Beach, they published the following letter of mine:

I was quite excited to read the article (5/13-19)
about Anthony Clark's service to help people avoid
parking tickets. I hope he can expand it to help with
a problem I have.

I get 40 - 50 moving violations a week for failing to
obey what I'm told are "STOP" signs. I see the
octagonal, red, metal sign at the corner, but I don't
always have the time or inclination to read the big,
white word in the center.

Maybe Mr. Clark can provide a service that lists the
location of every "STOP" sign in the city. Drivers
could keep the list in their lap, and as they approach
an intersection the list could be checked to see if
there is one of those "STOP" signs. Subscribers to the
service wouldn't have to be bothered reading the sign.

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I'd be interested in Mr. Clark explaining how reminding people about the parking regulations will create more parking spaces, which he says is the root of the problem.

bjorn fjornson
7 months ago

one must have an enormous amount of free time to re-type the snarky letters they write to free weekly magazines in the comment sections of public radio station websites.

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