Philadelphia Parking Authority history

On April 8, 1983, City Council passed an Ordinance transferring the following responsibilities to the PPA:

In 2002, the Pennsylvania Legislature created the Automated Red Light Camera Program to improve highway safety in Philadelphia and named the PPA the program’s administrator.

Beginning in 2004, the PA legislature established a new formula whereby rather than remitting all net parking revenues to the city, the PPA would now split payments between the City of Philadelphia general fund and the Philadelphia School District.

In 2005, after complaints about poor service, authority over regulation & management of all Taxi & Limo services in Philadelphia was given to the PPA. Much of this revenue is used to pay for its own operations.

Also in 2007, then Governor Ed Rendell ordered a full desk audit of the authority after allegations that it was ineffective at managing costs and bloated with management.

In the 2009 audit it was reported that PPA's strategy to issue bonds to generate revenue for major expenditures greatly reduced its profitability.

A $9 million increase from 2010.

(PHILADELPHIA) - Citing 41 deaths and over 135 injuries since 2011, Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) Deputy Executive Director Corinne O’Connor announced the PPA's new Bicycle Lane Enforcement Initiative, which calls

That success led the Legislature to expand Automated Red Light Enforcement systems throughout the Commonwealth in 2012.

As of March 2014, the PPA owed $40.9 million in unpaid liabilities to the city.

In 2018 the Pennsylvania Legislature created the Automated Speed Camera Program in Philadelphia to address dangerous driving conditions on the Roosevelt Boulevard and named the PPA its administrator.