2014 in Toronto parking tickets

The corpus holds 2,484,983 parking tickets for 2014, carrying $108,987,340 in set fines. That is 4.9% fewer than the 2,613,156 tickets recorded for 2013. The City publishes complete records only, so tickets with incomplete records, such as some out-of-province plates, are left out of both years.

Ticketing built up through the morning and peaked in the noon hour, when 198,753 tickets were issued. Activity stayed high into the early afternoon and picked up again in the evening, with 119,620 tickets in the 8 p.m. hour. Overnight enforcement was also substantial: the midnight hour alone accounted for 119,143 tickets. The quietest hour was 5 a.m., with 19,844. These figures reflect when enforcement took place, which is not spread evenly across the day.

Signed no-parking rules made up the largest family, with 22.1% of tickets. Unpaid meters and pay-and-display machines followed at 20.3%, then permit parking at 16.0%, private property at 12.7% and no stopping or rush-hour rules at 12.4%. Hydrant, fire-route, accessible-space, sidewalk and bike-lane infractions made up 4.7%. The single most common code was code 5, parking on a signed highway during prohibited times, with 444,262 tickets (17.9%). It was followed by code 29, parking at prohibited times without a permit, with 389,870, and code 210, failing to display a pay-and-display receipt, with 317,909.

The most-ticketed block was Edward Street between Yonge Street and Bay Street, with about 8,372 tickets. Next came a stretch of Bayview Avenue at Blythwood Road with about 7,997 and Mill Street between Trinity Street and Cherry Street with about 7,237. Queen Street West between Peter Street and Spadina Avenue followed with about 6,971. Totals by block show where enforcement was concentrated, not how often people break parking rules there.