Few things are more aggravating than to find a $100 parking ticket on your car when you’ve paid for the spot.

But that’s what happens to just about everyone who parks in front of the two ticket traps on University Ave. we’ve been writing about, victimizing them twice over.

And when the solution is as simple as two temporary “no parking” signs, which could be set up in a matter of minutes, it’s hard not to conclude that the city is deliberately sucking in drivers.

More on the University Ave. ticket traps at thestar.com:

Pilot project to mark ticket traps quietly disappears

One man’s crusade to warn drivers about ticket traps

Fixing ticket traps is easy, so why hasn’t it been done?

We took a renewed interest in the University traps after we noticed faded red paint on the curb in front of them, applied as part of an aborted pilot project to warn away drivers.

Robert Holland, the “ticket trap angel” who’s been hanging around the two obscured fire hydrants on University to warn people away, sends us an email just about every time he talks to a victim.

A common theme in his notes, which number in the dozens, is that the dupes paid for their parking and are outraged when they discover a $100 ticket for parking in front of a hydrant when they return to their cars.

For example: “This driver (from Mississauga) returned to find a $100 ticket on his windshield before his paid tag displayed on the dash had expired.”

Holland, a lawyer and a well-read guy, likened the spots to Venus flytraps, saying the plants “often turn deep red and produce sweet nectar around its edges, which entices flies and other insects into it.”

While we accompanied him last week, he insisted on taking us just around the corner to Chestnut St., just north of Armoury St., to show us temporary “no parking” signs that have concrete anchors and can be moved.

The same type of signs could be hoisted into a pickup truck and dropped off at the ticket traps on University, if there was any real interest in reducing predatory ticketing, he said.

When we suggested to the city last week that permanent no-parking signs could be erected at the traps to warn away drivers, an official said just one sign is needed, and that they’re considering it.

Readers may have noted skepticism in our Thursday column, when we asked the city to demonstrate a commitment to keeping the curb area open to allow fire truck access to the hydrants, instead of bilking drivers.

It would only take a phone call from the manager of planning and policy at transportation services, or someone similar, to order no-parking signs to be put up at the traps until the (alleged) permanent sign is in place.

They could put up temporary signs today. But it’ll never happen.

Here’s a promise: We will call the manager of planning and policy once a week for the next month, hoping to shame the city into putting up signs.

Maybe they’ll surprise us, but we predict nothing will change, even after the weekly phone calls.

And then you’ll know for sure that the city is deliberately clipping drivers.

Let the class-action lawsuit begin.

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