The city stepped up its parking enforcement when dramatically higher fines were introduced July 2, with nearly 2,000 more orange tickets slapped on the windshields of hapless drivers in the first 10 days than the same period last year.

Between July 1 and July 11, there were 35,270 parking tickets issued in Boston, up from 33,413 parking tickets issued during the same period last year, for an increase of 1,857, or 5.6 percent. The increased enforcement came as fines were raised by as much as 60 percent on unpaid meters and 33 percent in resident parking zones — the most heavily ticketed violations.

“I stopped driving into (Boston) because I don’t want to get tickets,” Audrey Milazzo, 23, of Somerville told the Herald last week. “There should be more parking availability, more than just two-hour meters and expensive garages. Giving out tickets to people minutes after their meters expire is just ridiculous.”

Anthony D’Isidoro, president of the Allston Civic Association, said the city’s new higher parking fines amounts to “selective punishment” of drivers.

“If people stop coming into the city with their cars because of the fines, could that hurt the economic vitality of the city? I’m not too excited of the efforts made to raise revenue,” D’Isidoro said. “It’s expensive enough in the city, not just for the residents but for people who have to come in and out of the city.”

Of the tickets issued between July 1 and July 11, parking enforcement officers wrote 6,575 tickets for unpaid meter fees — the most common violation. Those fines jumped to $40 from $25. The second-most common violation — parking in resident zones without a permit — saw 4,632 violators get more expensive tickets. That ticket carries a $60 fine, up from $40.

Drivers parked in zones marked for daytime street cleaning made up the third-most common violation, with 4,451 tickets carrying the same $40 fine it had prior to July 2.

Enforcement had been down from the prior year before the new fines took effect.

From June 20 through June 30 of this year, the city wrote 48,158 tickets — a drop of 2,456 from the same period last year, when 50,614 tickets were written, for a decrease of nearly 5 percent. That period had only one Sunday both years, while the July 1-11 period — with lower ticket totals in both years — included two Sundays and the Fourth of July holiday, in the middle of a popular vacation week.

With the increased fines, the city’s expected take for the 35,270 tickets issued in the beginning of July is $1.86 million — a number pushing close to the $1.95 million haul from the 48,158 tickets written in the prior 10 days under the old, cheaper penalty schedule.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh unveiled his plan in April, later approved by the City Council, to raise an extra $5 million for transportation projects by increasing parking fines.

Walsh’s plan for an additional $5 million in revenue includes about $1.4 million going to pay 19 new employees — and city officials say residents demanded the increase in enforcement for residential parking violators and other scofflaws.

Walsh wants to use revenue for about $2 million in road and sidewalk repairs and $300,000 in bike lanes. The city hopes to add new employees, including a new parking enforcement supervisor.

The mayor’s office did not make transportation officials available for comment for this report, but issued the following statement: “Last year, we promised to make transportation in Boston better for all with our Go Boston 2030 plan, and we’re committed to creating a strong transportation network by investing in both short- and long-term projects that will create greater transportation access that is reliable and safe for all users of our city’s streets.”

City officials said prior to the hike, the city had not raised parking fines in a decade and the new costlier tickets align Boston with other comparable cities.