If you’re slapped with a parking ticket during the NYPD’s annual Christmas blitz, now you’ll have help fighting it.
The Web site parkingticket.com – which specializes in helping motorists get their parking fines dismissed or reduced – is offering a gift certificate entitling users to have any tickets received between Dec. 15 and Dec. 19 challenged free of charge.
The offer is good for parking tickets issued in the Big Apple, as well as in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. To take advantage of the offer, go to the parkingticket.com Web site and click on the gift-certificate graphic at the top of the page.
“Whether you have one ticket or 100, you can fight them at parkingticket.com at no charge,” promises Glen Bolofsky, president of the Web site.
“With many parking tickets now at $115, the parking-ticket gift certificate will help thousands of people have a great holiday.
“People need help, and that’s what we’re here for,” said Bolofsky, whose Web site normally charges customers 50 percent of the amount they save by having their parking tickets dismissed.
The Post last month reported that despite soaring city parking penalties, there hasn’t been a big increase in the number of drivers contesting tickets.
City parking fines almost doubled in October 2001, but the percentage of challenged tickets rose only slightly – from 25.3 percent for the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2002, to 25.9 percent for the same period this year.