Parking Fines May Rise in Donner Summit, Moonshine Ink Reports

Even with an overall decline in driving during the COVID-19 pandemic, illegal parking in the Donner Summit region skyrocketed. According to data cited by Moonshine Ink reporter Alex Hoeft, the CHP slapped parked cars in the area with 85 percent more tickets in December of 2020 than in the same month a year earlier, prior to the onset of the pandemic.

But that was nothing compared to January 2021 when the number of tickets were up by 436 percent over January 2020, which was still about two months prior to the pandemic’s arrival in the United States.

To discourage further expansion of the parking ticket plague, an increase in fines may be in the offing, at least along Old Highway 40 in Truckee, Nevada County District 5 Supervisor Hardy Bullock told the Moonshine Ink reporter. “Right now, it’s $36 for a traffic citation,” Bullock told Hoeft. “We want to take that up to the $125 mark.”

Read more on MoonshineInk.com: “Parked Out.”