The best-kept secret in Lancaster, PA

The People's
Do Not Ticket List

For 30 years, the city's chosen few parked free. Their plates scanned green. Their tickets never issued. So we made our own.

10 seats · $25/mo or $250/yr · Seats open

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The
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"Select people who need to travel around the city throughout the day as a part of their jobs are able to do so."

— Mayor Jaime Arroyo

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featured exposé

The city's secret do-not-ticket list

Running since the 1990s
City Hall, Lancaster PA
Outed by a reader who watched a car sit in a bus lane for weeks, ticketless
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How it works

You Park. We Do The Rest.

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We watch your plate

The minute you're on The List, your plate goes under watch. We check Lancaster's ticketing system every few seconds you're parked — so we catch a citation the instant it's written.

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We pay your meter

The second an attendant scans your plate, we pay the meter for you — usually before you'd even know a ticket was coming. The receipt lands in your inbox.

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We handle the rest

On the rare miss, we file the dispute for you with the paid receipt attached. You never fill out a form or mail a check.

The city's list makes the ticket disappear before it prints. Ours makes it disappear before you notice.

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A note from Seat Nº 00

"The Lancaster elite have had a free parking pass this whole time. It's time someone built one for the rest of us."

The List is run by one Lancaster resident, ten members, and a machine that never stops watching the meter.

— The Founder, Seat Nº 00

The Roster

Ten Seats. That's It.

Each year we open ten seats. When they fill, they fill. Founding members get right-of-first-refusal on renewal.

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Reserve your seat

Join The List

Enter your name, plate, and email. If a seat is open, you check out on the spot and your plate goes under watch. If we're full, you join the waitlist.

Membership

Seat open → secure checkout now. Seats full → waitlist, and we don't charge you until one opens.

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Your founding member card, issued when a seat opens

Membership
$25/mo
or $250/year — two months free

About what one ticket would run you — except we just pay your meter before it ever becomes a ticket. Every scan, every month.

10 seats total monthly or yearly lancaster city only
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Made for the Red Rose City
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The county
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Exempt already
Fine print

Questions

Wait. Is this actually legal? ↓

All we do is pay for your parking. The second your plate gets scanned, we pay the meter — nothing to tamper with, nothing to install. And on the rare time a ticket still prints, we file the dispute for you with the paid-meter receipt attached.

Are you on the city's real list? ↓

No. That list is for city employees and elected officials. Ours is a private membership that gets you to the same place — a paid meter and no ticket — simply by paying your parking for you, fast.

What does membership cover? ↓

Your seat on The List — $25/month or $250/year, your pick. Unlimited meter payments across Lancaster City: every time your plate gets scanned, we pay it. A member card you can save to your phone. Monthly renews each month from the day you join; yearly renews one year from the day you join.

Why only ten seats? ↓

Because our monitor watches every seat's plate every few seconds. Adding more members means adding infrastructure, and we'd rather serve ten people flawlessly than a hundred badly. If demand justifies it, we'll open a second chapter next year.

What if I never get a seat? ↓

You keep your spot in line for the next opening. No card charged until a seat opens.

Where does this work? ↓

City of Lancaster only, for now. If we expand to York, Harrisburg, or Reading, members will get first crack at seats there too.