A parking ticket can be a painful price to pay for trying to shop, do business, or sightsee in a metropolitan area. If you are a visitor, it is easy to miss parking signs that will help you avoid these tickets. Even if you are a resident, feeding a parking meter can be difficult to keep up with while you're busy with other activities. The bottom line is, avoid parking tickets if you can. But if you can't, there are ways to successfully dispute parking tickets. First, be sure you know where you were when the ticket was issued. Any system that processes hundreds of thousands of tickets per year can make mistakes. Second, follow all the instructions on the ticket to make sure you meet all the deadlines for filing for a hearing. Finally, have photos and diagrams if you attempt to prove the parking signs were not clear or the meter was broken.