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The City of Toronto’s collection rate is one of the highest in Canada, approximately 15% of all parking tickets are not collected for a variety of reasons.
In 2009, of the approximately 2.8 million tickets issued, 428,651 or 15.34% of these were cancelled.
Table 1 provides a breakdown of tickets issued:
TABLE 1 - Number of Parking Tickets Issued by Unit
Click on table 2 and you will see a breakdown of the number of tickets that were cancelled 2008-2009. You will notice 163,370 or 5.85% were cancelled. These are mainly utility vehicles or vehicles that had by-law-exemption ! The number has grown since 2008.
TABLE 2 - Parking Tickets - Breakdown of Tickets Cancelled – 2008 and 2009
TABLE 3 - Collection Activity for Tickets
In 2009, 300,535 (10.75%) of parking ticket recipients requested a trial. Of the 129,932 tickets that went to trial, 102,661 (or 79.01%) received a conviction.
TABLE 4 - Summary of Trial Requests and Court Conviction Activity - 2009
