No snow, but police have written thousands of alt.-side parking tickets in La Crosse

Tickets start at $10

It’s hard to call it winter so far in La Crosse.

There have been, however, thousands of alternate-side parking tickets written, as if it was.

La Crosse police reported 3,822 tickets were written for the month of November since the start of alternate-side parking enforcement began on the first – a month without any snow and temperatures well above normal.

Alternate-side parking tickets start at $10, so the city has made at least $38,220, so far.

Last year, there were just under 12,800 written for the entire alternate-side parking enforcement season.  

There have been, however, thousands of alternate-side parking tickets written, as if it was.

La Crosse police have reported 3,822 tickets written for the month of November since the start of alternate-side parking enforcement began on the first of the month – a month without any snow and temperatures well above normal for the entire month.  

Comparing those figures to last year, it’s a 16-percent increase in tickets. Alternate-side parking tickets start at $10, so the city has made at least $38,220, so far.