FOX 29's Dave Schratwieser reports. PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Parking Authority says they ticketed cars along Walnut Street Thursday afternoon because it constituted as a safety violation that could block emergency vehicles at rush hour.
The scene was the same up and down Walnut Street Thursday afternoon, car after car ticketed by the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
Driver after driver confused, angry and frustrated. Lou DiMichele is a contractor working on an asbestos removal project at 6th and Walnut.
He parked his car in the loading zone thinking the PPA wasn’t ticketing cars during the coronsvirus pandemic. "They told me there wasn't gonna be anybody writing tickets so I thought we were good here.