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500,000
Estimated number of parking tickets issued in 2010
$21 million
Amount the city collected for parking tickets
27,000
Estimated number of vehicles in Seattle with at least four unpaid parking or traffic tickets, amounting to $15 million in lost revenue
$27 million
Estimated amount the city collected from parking kiosks and meters in 2010
60 percent
Mayor Mike McGinn has proposed raising parking rates, up to $4 per hour downtown
9 percent
Increase in available spaces estimated by Seattle Department of Transportation if the hourly parking rate is raised
$3

Amount by which the mayor’s proposed hourly rate would undercut the market rate—$7 per hour—at private downtown parking lots
Published in the Our Best High Schools issue of Seattle Met.
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