Car collects parking tickets in downtown Chattanooga

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — A car parked in downtown Chattanooga has been collecting parking tickets for nearly two weeks.

The car has several tickets and leaves on the windshield.

It’s at a metered parking spot on the corner of Market Street and 6th Street.

Brent Matthews, the director of parking for CARTA, says they contact police about abandoned cars.

Officers then come out and tag the car with a sticker and then they usually tow it within 48 hours.

Matthews says it’s not a good idea to leave cars in these parking spots.

“The whole idea is to keep the parking spaces moving at the meters. We want to make them available to the public that is going to be coming downtown. We want to try to keep those spaces open and available,” Matthews said.

The parking director says usually they see about 20 to 30 cases like this a year.

He says often the cars were reported stolen.