LA Scene: $140 parking tickets

In my monthly budget, I have a line item for parking tickets.

I really try not to get them but over the course of 12 months, I usually wind up getting a few.

Well, the price has gone up on parking tickets on certain congested rush hour streets.

The part of Los Angeles where I live is on a razor's edge to gridlock.

I live a mere 3 miles from work and once it took me almost one hour to get home!

The streets are filled to capacity and all it takes is one or two accidents and the whole area turns into a parking lot.