Is the same each year? After Mardi Gas season

 http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/03/parking_tickets_were_a_mardi_g.html

http://www.atneworleans.com/body/mardirules.htm 

Everyone who lives in NOLA should follow the rules during Mardi Gras season but There are many people whom followed the rules and have living here for many years and the story always is the same, I’m talking about vehicular parking which is a big problem during season .One of the most frequent downers at Mardi Gras is discovering that your automobile is gone.

Like everyone knows parking along parade routes is prohibited for two hours before a parade. Cars will be towed. To help make the point, and the NOPD say: remember parking fines and towing fees are a major source of income for the city. There are many people whom followed the rules like park on the grassy apron of the sidewalk. They took a photo of how they were parked that day. Cars were parked similarly up and down the street in both directions. 

Times-Picayune archive New Orleans is owed $91 million in unpaid parking tickets, and the city plans to get tough in collecting as much as it can, officials said.Mardi Gras was the perfect moment for it.

A $40 parking violation was issued for "No Parking-Sidewalk." The sign was not an official "no parking" sign. School was not in session as it was Sunday. Every car was cited in both directions.

They did not block the sidewalk. They drove by the same area and took photos and videos. There were many vehicles parked up on the sidewalk and vehicles less than 20 feet from the corner. Blocks away, homeowners had their vehicles parked similarly, and no tickets were on any of these vehicles and probably never are. The city does not issue tickets for such violations, but only capitalizes on Mardi Gras parade-goers by herding the meter maids to areas they don't normally ticket. They say that this happen each year and are disappointed about the use of employee resources to demonstrate opportunistic, negative Mardi Gras practices.